Church History 6.43.14 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:292

ᾧ γε ἀφορμὴ τοῦ πιστεῦσαι γέγονεν ὁ ‟σατανᾶς, φοιτήσας εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ οἰκήσας ἐν αὐτῷ χρόνον ἱκανόν. ὃς βοηθούμενος ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπορκιστῶν, νόσῳ περιπεσὼν χαλεπῇ, καὶ ἀποθανεῖσθαι ὅσον οὐδέπω νομιζόμενος, ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ κλίνῃ, ᾗ ἔκειτο, περιχυθεὶς ἔλαβεν· εἴ γε χρὴ λέγειν τὸν τοιοῦτον εἰληφέναι.

English · Claude translation

For him the occasion of believing was Satan, who entered into him and dwelt in him a considerable time. Being helped by the exorcists, he fell into a severe illness and, being thought about to die, received baptism by affusion on the very bed on which he lay — if indeed such a one can be said to have received it.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:292 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Cornelius of Rome, Cornelius (Cornelius of Rome, Letter to Fabius of Antioch) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Baptism, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Cornelius of Rome, Letter to Fabius. “Received by affusion” renders περιχυθεὶς ἔλαβεν (clinical baptism by pouring).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/14/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/14/).