Church History 6.18.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: He taught gifted students the full course of philosophy, winning fame even among pagans.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:261

εἰσῆγέ τε γὰρ ὅσους εὐφυῶς ἔχοντας ἑώρα καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ φιλόσοφα μαθήματα, γεωμετρίαν καὶ ἀριθμητικὴν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα προπαιδεύματα παραδιδοὺς, εἴς τε τὰς αἱρέσεις τὰς παρὰ τοῖς φιλοσόφοις προάγων, καὶ τὰ παρὰ τούτοις συγγράμματα διηγούμενος, ὑπομνηματιζόμενοί τε καὶ θεωρῶν εἰς ἕκαστα, ὥστε μέγαν καὶ παρʼ αὐτοῖς Ἕλλησι φιλόσοφον τὸν ἄνδρα κηρύττεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

For he introduced all whom he saw to be naturally gifted to philosophical studies as well, teaching geometry and arithmetic and the other preliminary subjects, and leading them on to the schools of the philosophers, expounding their writings, commenting on them and examining each, so that the man was proclaimed a great philosopher even among the Greeks themselves.

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Source

Dindorf 4:261 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/18/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/18/3/).