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Church History 5.4.1

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

Summary: The martyrs recommended the presbyter Irenaeus to Eleutherus of Rome.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:201

Οἱ δʼ αὐτοὶ μάρτυρες καὶ τὸν Εἰρήναιον, πρεσβύτερον ἤδη τότʼ ὄντα τῆς ἐν Λουγδούνῳ παροικίας, τῷ δηλωθέντι κατὰ ῾Ρώμην ἐπισκόπῳ συνίστων, πλεῖστα τῷ ἀνδρὶ μαρτυροῦντες, ὡς αἱ τοῦτον ἔχουσαι τὸν τρόπον δηλοῦσι φωναί

English · Claude translation

The same martyrs also commended Irenaeus, who was then already a presbyter of the community at Lyons, to the bishop of Rome mentioned, bearing him abundant witness, as these words show:

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Dindorf 4:201 · 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.
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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)
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Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/4/1/).

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