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Church History 6.46.4

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

Summary: Dionysius reports Fabius's death, Demetrianus's succession at Antioch, and Alexander's death in prison.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:297

πρὸς τούτοις ἐπιστέλλει μηνυθῆναι αὐτῷ Φάβιον μὲν κεκοιμῆσθαι, Δημητριανὸν δὲ διάδοχον ἐκείνου τῆς κατʼ Ἀντιόχειαν ἐπισκοπῆς καθεστάναι. γράφει δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις αὐτοῖς ῥήμασι φάσκων ‟ὁ μὲν γὰρ “μακάριος Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν φρουρᾷ γενόμενος μακα- “ρίως ἀνεπαύσατο.”

English · Claude translation

In addition he writes that he had been informed that Fabius had fallen asleep and that Demetrianus had been appointed his successor in the episcopate at Antioch. He writes also about the bishop in Jerusalem, saying in these words: “For the blessed Alexander, having been put in prison, went blessedly to his rest.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:297 · 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
Church office, Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, Letter to Cornelius.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.46.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/46/4/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.46.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/46/4/).

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