Sophia Scriptura

Church History 5.28.15

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: They corrupt the faith with pagan learning and have altered the Scriptures, claiming to correct them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:238

οἱ δὲ ταῖς τῶν ἀπίστων τέχναις εἰς τὴν “τῆς αἱρέσεως αὐτῶν γνώμην ἀποχρώμενοι, καὶ τῇ “τῶν ἀθέων πανουργίᾳ τὴν ἁπλῆν τῶν θείων γρα- “φῶν πίστιν καπηλεύοντες, ὅτι μηδὲ ἐγγὺς πίστεως “ὑπάρχουσι, τί δεῖ καὶ λέγειν; διὰ τοῦτο ταῖς θείαις “γραφαῖς ἀφόβως ἐπέβαλον τὰς χεῖρας, λέγοντες αὐ- “τὰς διωρθωκέναι.

English · Claude translation

As for those who misuse the arts of unbelievers for the opinion of their heresy, and adulterate the simple faith of the divine Scriptures with the craft of the godless, what need is there to say that they are not even near the faith? Therefore they have fearlessly laid their hands on the divine Scriptures, saying that they have corrected them.

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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)
Scripture
Topics
Heresy, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the anonymous work against Artemon; “adulterate” (καπηλεύοντες) echoes 2 Cor 2:17.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/15/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.28.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/28/15/).

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