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Church History 6.32.2

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

Summary: At Athens he finished Ezekiel and began the Song of Songs, completing ten books at Caesarea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:275

γενόμενος δὲ τηνικάδε ἐν Ἀθήναις περαίνει μὲν τὰ εἰς τὸν Ἰεζεκιὴλ, τῶν δὲ εἰς τὸ ᾆσμα τῶν ᾀσμάτων ἄρχεται, καὶ πρόεισί γε αὐτόθι μέχρι πέμπτου συγγράμματος. ἐπανελθὼν δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν Καισάρειαν καὶ ταῦτα εἰς πέρας δέκα ὄντα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἄγει.

English · Claude translation

Being at Athens at that time, he finished those on Ezekiel and began those on the Song of Songs, proceeding there as far as the fifth book. Returning to Caesarea, he completed these also, ten in number.

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Source
Dindorf 4:275 · 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
Scripture and canon

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/32/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/32/2/).

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