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Church History 6.44.5

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

Summary: Serapion received the eucharist and died at once.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:295

ἐπανῆκεν ὁ παῖς φέρων· ἐγγύς τε γενομένου, πρὶν εἰσελθεῖν, ἀνενέγκας πάλιν ὁ Σαραπίων, ἧκες, ἔφη, τέκνον; καὶ ὁ μὲν πρεσβύτερος ἐλθεῖν οὐκ ἠδυνήθη, σὺ δὲ ποίησον ταχέως τὸ προσταχθὲν, καὶ ἀπάλλαττέ με. ἀπέβρεξεν ὁ παῖς καὶ ἅμα τε ἐνέχεε τῷ στόματι καὶ μικρὸν ἐκεῖνος καταβροχθίσας εὐθέως ἀπέδωκε τὸ πνεῦμα.

English · Claude translation

The boy returned bringing it; and when he was near, before he went in, Serapion revived again and said, ‘You have come, child? The presbyter could not come; but do quickly what you were told, and let me go.’ The boy soaked it and at the same time poured it into his mouth, and when he had swallowed a little, he immediately gave up the spirit.

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Source
Dindorf 4:295 · 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
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Eucharist

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/5/).

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