Church History 5.28.13 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:238

τούτοις ἐπισυνάψωμεν καὶ ἄλλας περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν τοῦ αὐτοῦ συγγραφέως φωνὰς, τοῦτον ἐχούσας τὸν τρόπον· “γραφὰς μὲν θείας ἀφόβως ῥερᾳδιουργήκασι, “πίστεώς τε ἀρχαίας κανόνα ἠθετήκασι, Χριστὸν δὲ “ἠγνοήκασιν, οὐ τί αἱ θεῖαι λέγουσι γραφαὶ ζητοῦν- “τες, ἀλλʼ ὁποῖον σχῆμα συλλογισμοῦ εἰς τὴν τῆς “ἀθεότητος σύστασιν εὑρεθῇ, φιλοπόνως ἀσκοῦντες· “κἂν αὐτοῖς προτείνῃ τις ῥητὸν γραφὴς θεϊκῆς, ἐξε- “τάζουσι, πότερον συνημμένον ἢ διεζευγμένον δύνα- “ται ποιῆσαι σχῆμα συλλογισμοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Let us add to these other words of the same writer about the same people, which run thus: “They have fearlessly tampered with the divine Scriptures, set aside the rule of the ancient faith, and failed to know Christ, not inquiring what the divine Scriptures say, but diligently practising what form of syllogism may be found to establish their godlessness. And if anyone puts before them a text of divine Scripture, they examine whether it can make a conjunctive or disjunctive form of syllogism.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:238 · 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)

Topics

Heresy, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the anonymous work against Artemon.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ὁποἱον → ὁποῖον.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/13/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/13/).