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Church History 6.12.5

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

Summary: Serapion explains the heresy of Marcianus in his letter.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:255

ὑμεῖς δὲ, ἀδελφοὶ, κατα- “λαβόμενοι ὁποίας ἦν αἱρέσεως ὁ Μαρκιανὸς, ὡς καὶ “ἑαυτῷ ἠναντιοῦτο μὴ νοῶν ἃ ἐλάλει μαθήσεσθε ἐξ “ὧν ὑμῖν ἐγράφη.

English · Claude translation

But you, brothers, grasping what kind of heresy Marcianus held, and how he contradicted himself, not understanding what he said, will learn from what has been written to you.

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Source
Dindorf 4:255 · 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
  • Serapion of Antioch, Serapion (Serapion of Antioch (letters)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Serapion, On the Gospel of Peter.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/12/5/).

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