Church History 5.26.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:234–235

Ἀλλὰ γὰρ πρὸς τοῖς ἀποδοθεῖσιν Εἰρηναίου συγγράμμασι καὶ ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς φέρεταί τις αὐτοῦ ἀναγκαιότατος, λόγος συντομώτατος καὶ τὰ μάλιστα ἀναγκαιότατος, περὶ ἐπιστήμης ἐπιγεγραμμένος· καὶ ἄλλος ὃν ἀνατέθεικεν ἀδελφῷ, Μαρκιανῷ τοὔνομα, εἰς ἐπίδειξιν τοῦ ἀποστολικοῦ κηρύγματος· καὶ βιβλίον τι διαλέξεων διαφόρων, ἐν ᾧ τῆς πρὸς Ἑβραίους ἐπιστολῆς καὶ τῆς λεγομένης Σοφίας Σολομῶνος μνημονεύει, ῥητά τινα ἐξ αὐτῶν παραθέμε- νος. καὶ τὰ μὲν εἰς ἡμετέραν ἐλθόντα γνῶσιν τῶν Εἰρηναίου τοσαῦτα. Κομόδου δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπὶ δέκα καὶ τρισὶν ἔτεσι καταλύσαντος αὐτοκράτωρ Σεβῆρος οὐδʼ ὅλοις μησὶν ἓξ μετὰ τὴν Κομόδου τελευτὴν Περτίνακος διαγενομένου κρατεῖ.

English · Claude translation

Besides the works and letters of Irenaeus already mentioned, there is extant a very brief and most necessary treatise of his entitled On Knowledge; another, which he dedicated to a brother named Marcianus, in demonstration of the apostolic preaching; and a book of various discourses, in which he mentions the Letter to the Hebrews and the so-called Wisdom of Solomon, quoting certain passages from them. These are the works of Irenaeus that have come to our knowledge. When Commodus ended his rule after thirteen years, Severus became emperor, Pertinax having lasted not even six whole months after the death of Commodus.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:234–235 · 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

Wis (Wisdom of Solomon) · allusion, low confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The Demonstration survives in Armenian; the other works are lost. Severus became emperor in 193.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): ἐπίδειξεν → ἐπίδειξιν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/26/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/26/1/).