Church History 5.24.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:231–232

τούτοις ἐπιφέρει περὶ πάντων γράφων τῶν συμπαρόντων αὐτῷ καὶ ὁμοδοξούντων ἐπισκόπων ταῦτα λέγων “ἐδυνάμην δὲ τῶν ἐπισκόπων “τῶν συμπαρόντων μνημονεῦσαι, οὓς ὑμεῖς ἠξιώσατε “μετακληθῆναι ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ, καὶ μετεκαλεσάμην· ὧν τὰ “ὀνόματα ἐὰν γράφω, πολλὰ πλήθη εἰσίν. οἱ δὲ “ἰδόντες τὸν μικρόν μου ἄνθρωπον συνηυδόκησαν “τῇ ἐπιστολῇ, εἰδότες ὅτι εἰκῆ πολιὰς οὐκ ἤνεγκα, “ἀλλὰ ἐν κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ πάντοτε πεπολίτευμαι.”

English · Claude translation

To this he adds, writing about all the bishops who were with him and shared his opinion: “I could mention the bishops who were present, whom you asked me to summon, and I summoned them; if I were to write their names, they are a great multitude. And they, seeing my littleness, gave their consent to the letter, knowing that I did not bear my grey hairs in vain, but have always lived in the Lord Jesus.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:231–232 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Extrabiblical texts

Polycrates of Ephesus, Polycrates (Polycrates of Ephesus, Letter to Victor) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Polycrates of Ephesus, Letter to Victor.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text; wrong breathing in the digital text): ὑέ ἐμοῦ → ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ; “ἀνόματα → “ὀνόματα.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.24.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/24/8/).