Church History 6.43.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:290

τὸν δὴ οὖν Φάβιον ἀναδιδάσκων ὁποῖός τις ὁ Νοουάτος ἐγεγόνει τὸν τρόπον αὐτὰ δὴ ταῦτα γράφει ὁ Κορνήλιος “ἵνα δὲ γνῷς ὅτι πρόπαλαι ὀρεγόμενος “ἐπισκοπῆς ὁ θαυμάσιος οὗτος καὶ κρύπτων ἐν “ἑαυτῷ τὴν προπετῆ ταύτην αὐτοῦ ἐπιθυμίαν ἐλάν- “θανεν, ἐπικαλύμματι τῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπονοίας τῷ ἀρχὰς σὺν αὐτῷ τοὺς ὁμολογητὰς ἐσχηκέναι χρώμενος, εἰπεῖν βούλομαι.

English · Claude translation

Informing Fabius what sort of man Novatus was, Cornelius writes these very words: “That you may know that this remarkable man had long desired the episcopate, and kept this rash desire of his hidden within himself, using as a cloak for his folly the fact that he had the confessors with him from the beginning, I wish to tell you.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:290 · 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

Heresy, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Cornelius of Rome, Letter to Fabius of Antioch (to 6.43.20).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread word in the digital text): κρύπτων ἑ “ἑαυτῷ → κρύπτων ἐν “ἑαυτῷ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/5/).