Church History 6.19.5

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

Summary: Porphyry takes Origen, whom he met as a youth, as his example.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:262

εἶτα μεθʼ ἕτερά φησιν ὁ δὲ τρόπος τῆς ἀτοπίας ἐξ ἀνδρὸς, ᾧ κἀγὼ κομιδῆ “νέος ὢν ἔτι ἐντετύχηκα, σφόδρα εὐδοκιμήσαντος καὶ ἔτι διʼ ὧν καταλέλοιπε συγγραμμάτων εὐδοκιμοῦν “τος, παρειλήφθω Ὠριγένους, οὗ κλέος παρὰ τοῖς διδασκάλοις τούτων τῶν λόγων μέγα διαδέδοται.

English · Claude translation

Then after other things he says: “Let the manner of this absurdity be taken from a man whom I too met when I was still quite young, who was held in great esteem and is still esteemed through the writings he left: Origen, whose fame has spread widely among the teachers of these doctrines.

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Dindorf 4:262 · 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

Porphyry, Porphyry, Chr. (Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Porphyry, Against the Christians.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/5/).

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