Church History 6.3.1

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

Summary: With the catechists driven out by persecution, pagans came to Origen for instruction.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:243

Σχολάζοντι δὲ τῇ διατριβῇ, ὥς που καὶ αὐτὸς ἐγγράφως ἱστορεῖ, μηδενός τε ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας τῷ κατηχεῖν ἀνακειμένου, πάντων δὲ ἀπεληλαμένων ὑπὸ τῆς ἀπειλῆς τοῦ διωγμοῦ, προσῄεσαν αὐτῷ τινὲς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀκουσόμενοι τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

While he was devoting himself to teaching, as he himself somewhere records in writing, and there was no one at Alexandria set apart for catechizing, since all had been driven away by the threat of persecution, some of the Gentiles came to him to hear the word of God.

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Source: Dindorf 4:243 · 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: Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/1/).

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