Church History 6.43.9 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:291

οὓς “παραγενομένους, ἄτε δὴ, ὡς ἔφθημεν λέγοντες, ‟ἀνθρώπους ἁπλουστέρους περὶ τὰς τῶν πονηρῶν μηχανάς τε καὶ ῥᾳδιουργίας, συγκλεισθέντας ὑπό “τινων ὁμοίων αὐτῷ τεταγμένων ἀνθρώπων, ὥρᾳ “δεκάτῃ μεθύοντας καὶ κραιπαλῶντας μετὰ βίας “ἠνάγκασεν εἰκονικῇ τινι καὶ ματαίᾳ χειρεπιθεσίᾳ ‟ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτῶ δοῦναι, ἣν ἐνέδρᾳ καὶ πανουργίᾳ, ‟μὴ ἐπιβάλλουσαν αὐτῷ, ἐκδικεῖ.

English · Claude translation

When they arrived, being, as we said before, too simple for the devices and knavery of wicked men, they were shut up by certain men like himself whom he had arranged, and at the tenth hour, drunk and sick with debauch, he compelled them by force to give him the episcopate by a counterfeit and vain laying on of hands — an episcopate which he claims by treachery and craft, though it does not belong to him.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:291 · 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; a hostile account.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): ‟μή ἐπιβάλλουσαν → ‟μὴ ἐπιβάλλουσαν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.43.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/43/9/).