Church History 6.2.14 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Origen refused ever to pray with the heretic Paul, keeping the church's rule.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:242–243

ἀλλὰ τούτῳ γε ἐπάναγκες ὁ Ὠριγένης συνὼν τῆς ἐξ ἐκείνου περὶ τὴν πίστιν ὀρθοδοξίας ἐναργῆ παρείχετο δείγματα, ὅτι δὴ μυρίου πλήθους διὰ τὸ δοκοῦν ἱκανὸν ἐν λόγῳ τοῦ Παύλου τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ὄνομα τῷ ἀνδρὶ) συναγομένου παρʼ αὐτῷ οὐ μόνον αἱρετικῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμετέρων, οὐδεπώποτε προυτράπη κατὰ τὴν εὐχὴν αὐτῷ συστῆναι, φυλάττων ἐξέτι παιδὸς κανόνα ἐκκλησίας, βδελυττόμενός τε, ὡς αὐτῷ ῥήματι φησί που αὐτὸς, τὰς τῶν αἱρέσεων διδασκαλίας.

English · Claude translation

But though Origen was obliged to be with him, he gave clear proofs of his orthodoxy in the faith even from then. For although a great multitude, not only of heretics but also of our people, gathered to Paul (for that was the man's name) because of his apparent skill in speech, Origen could never be induced to join him in prayer, keeping the rule of the church from boyhood and abhorring, as he himself says somewhere in these very words, the teachings of the heresies.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:242–243 · 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

Heresy, Prayer

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/14/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/14/).