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Church History 6.36.4

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

Summary: Origen wrote to Fabian of Rome and others defending his orthodoxy.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:278

γράφει δὲ καὶ Φαβιανῷ τῷ κατὰ Ῥώμην ἐπισκόπῳ, ἑτέροις τε πλείστοις ἄρχουσιν ἐκκλησιῶν, περὶ τῆς κατʼ αὐτὸν ὀρθοδοξίας. ἔχεις καὶ τούτων τὰς ἀποδείξεις ἐν ἕκτῳ τῆς γραφείσης ἡμῖν περὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀπολογίας.

English · Claude translation

He also wrote to Fabian, bishop of Rome, and to very many other rulers of churches about his orthodoxy. You have the proofs of these too in the sixth book of the Defence we wrote about the man.

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Source
Dindorf 4:278 · 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
Church office

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.36.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/36/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.36.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/36/4/).

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