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Church History 6.19.16

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

Summary: Fleeing trouble in Alexandria, Origen went to Caesarea, where the bishops had him preach though he was a layman.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:265

χρόνου δὲ μεταξὺ διαγενομένου, οὐ σμικροῦ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἀναρριπισθέντος πολέμου, ὑπεξελθὼν τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, καὶ μηδὲ τὰς κατʼ Αἴγυπτον διατριβὰς ἀσφαλεῖς ἑαυτῷ ἡγούμενος, ἐλθὼν ἐπὶ Παλαιστίνης, ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τὰς διατριβὰς ἐποιεῖτο, ἔνθα καὶ διαλέγεσθαι τάς τε θείας ἑρμηνεύειν γραφὰς ἐπὶ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῆς ἐκκλησίας οἱ τῇδε ἐπίσκοποι, καίτοι τῆς τοῦ πρεσβυτερίου χειροτονίας οὐδέπω τετυχηκότα αὐτὸν ἠξίουν.

English · Claude translation

Some time later, when no small war had broken out in the city, he left Alexandria secretly and, thinking that not even residence in Egypt was safe for him, went to Palestine and stayed at Caesarea. There the bishops of the region asked him to discourse and to interpret the divine Scriptures publicly in the church, although he had not yet received ordination as presbyter.

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Source
Dindorf 4:265 · 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)
Topics
Church office, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The trouble is Caracalla's massacre at Alexandria (215).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/16/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/16/).

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