Church History 6.13.9

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

Summary: In On the Pascha Clement recorded traditions of the ancient presbyters and cited Melito and Irenaeus.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:256–257

καὶ ἐν τῷ λόγῳ δὲ αὐτοῦ τῷ περὶ τοῦ πάσχα ἐκβιασθῆναι ὁμολογεῖ πρὸς τῶν ἑταίρων, ἃς ἔτυχε παρὰ τῶν ἀρχαίων πρεσβυτέρων ἀκηκοὼς παραδόσεις, γραφῇ τοῖς μετὰ ταῦτα παραδοῦναι. μέμνηται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ Μελίτωνος καὶ Εἰρηναίου καί τινων ἑτέρων, ὧν καὶ τὰς διηγήσεις τέθειται.

English · Claude translation

And in his book On the Pascha he acknowledges that he was urged by his companions to hand down in writing, to those who would come after, the traditions he had heard from the ancient presbyters. In it he mentions Melito and Irenaeus and some others, whose accounts he has also set down.

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Source: Dindorf 4:256–257 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.13.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/13/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.13.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/13/9/).

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