Church History 6.43.19

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

Summary: Instead of “Amen” at communion, the recipient had to say, “I will not go back to Cornelius.”

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:293

καὶ ὁ ἄθλιος ἄνθρωπος οὐ πρότερον γεύεται, εἰ μὴ πρότερον αὐτῷ καταράσαιτο. καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ῾εἰπεῖν λαμβάνοντα τὸν ἄρτον ἐκεῖνον τὸ ἀμήν ῾οὐκ- ‟ἔτι ἀνήξω πρὸς Κορνήλιον λέγει.”

English · Claude translation

And the unhappy man does not taste until he has first called down a curse on himself; and instead of saying ‘Amen’ as he takes that bread, he says, ‘I will not go back to Cornelius.’”

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Source

Dindorf 4:293 · 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

Eucharist, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Cornelius of Rome.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/19/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/19/).

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