Sophia Scriptura

Church History 6.19.8

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

Summary: Porphyry: Origen read Plato and the Pythagoreans and borrowed Stoic allegory for the Jewish Scriptures.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:263

συνῆν τε γὰρ ἀεὶ τῷ Πλά- “τωνι, τοῖς τε Νουμηνίου καὶ Κρονίου, Ἀπολλοφά- “νους τε καὶ Λογγίνου καὶ Μοδεράτου Νικομάχου τε “καὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς Πυθαγορείοις ἐλλογίμων ἀνδρῶν “ὡμίλει συγγράμμασιν· ἐχρῆτο δὲ καὶ Χαιρήμονος “τοῦ Στωϊκοῦ, Κορνούτου τε ταῖς βίβλοις, παρʼ ὧν “τὸν μεταληπτικὸν τῶν παρʼ Ἕλλησι μυστηρίων γνοὺς “τρόπον ταῖς Ἰουδαικαῖς προσῆψε γραφαῖς.”

English · Claude translation

For he was always consorting with Plato, and was conversant with the writings of Numenius and Cronius, Apollophanes and Longinus and Moderatus, Nicomachus and the eminent men among the Pythagoreans; and he used the books of Chaeremon the Stoic and of Cornutus, from whom he learned the allegorical method of the Greek mysteries and applied it to the Jewish Scriptures.”

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Dindorf 4:263 · 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
  • Plato (Plato (works)) · allusion, medium confidence
  • Numenius (Numenius of Apamea) · allusion, medium confidence
  • Porphyry, Porphyry, Chr. (Porphyry, Against the Christians (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Porphyry, Against the Christians.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.19.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/19/8/).

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