Church History 6.43.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Letters of Cornelius and of Cyprian confirm that the lapsed should be helped and Novatian excommunicated.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:289

ἦλθον δʼ οὖν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐπιστολαὶ Κορνηλίου Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκόπου πρὸς τὸν τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας Φάβιον, δηλοῦσαι τὰ περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων συνόδου καὶ τὰ δόξαντα πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν καὶ Ἀφρικὴν καὶ τὰς αὐτόθι χώρας· καὶ ἄλλαι πάλιν Ῥωμαϊκῇ φωνῇ συντεταγμέναι Κυπριανοῦ καὶ τῶν ἅμʼ αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν Ἀφρικὴν, διʼ ὧν τὸ καὶ αὐτοὺς συνευδοκεῖν τῷ δεῖν τυγχάνειν ἐπικουρίας τοὺς πεπειρασμένους ἐφαίνετο, καὶ τῷ χρῆναι εὐλόγως τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκκήρυκτον ποιήσασθαι τὸν τῆς αἱρέσεως ἀρχηγὸν, πάντας τε ὁμοίως τοὺς συναπαγομένους αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

There have come down to us letters of Cornelius, bishop of the Romans, to Fabius of the church of the Antiochenes, which tell of the Roman synod and of what was decided by all those in Italy and Africa and the regions there; and others again, composed in Latin, of Cyprian and those with him in Africa, which showed that they too agreed that those who had been tempted should receive help, and that the leader of the heresy, and all who were carried away with him, should rightly be put out of the catholic church.

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)

Extrabiblical texts

Cyprian, Ep. (Letters) · allusion, medium confidence
Cornelius of Rome, Cornelius (Cornelius of Rome, Letter to Fabius of Antioch) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/3/).