Church History 6.43.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:289

Ἐπειδήπερ τῇ κατὰ τούτων ἀρθεὶς ὑπερηφανίᾳ Νοουάτος, τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίας πρεσβύτερος, ὡς μηκέτʼ οὔσης αὐτοῖς σωτηρίας ἐλπίδος, μηδʼ εἰ πάντα τὰ εἰς ἐπιστροφὴν γνησίαν καὶ καθαρὰν ἐξομολόγησιν ἐπιτελοῖεν, ἰδίας αἱρέσεως τῶν κατὰ λογισμοῦ φυσίωσιν Καθαροὺς ἑαυτοὺς ἀποφηνάντων ἀρχηγὸς καθίσταται.

English · Claude translation

For Novatus, a presbyter of the church of the Romans, lifted up by arrogance against them, as though there were no longer hope of salvation for them, not even if they did everything for genuine conversion and pure confession, became the leader of a heresy of his own, that of those who in the pride of their reasoning called themselves Cathari.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:289 · 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, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Eusebius and his Greek sources call Novatian “Novatus” (Νοουάτος). “Cathari” means “the Pure.” Eusebius's hostile description is his own.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/1/).