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Church History 6.46.5

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

Summary: Dionysius wrote several letters to Rome, including to the Novatianist confessors before and after their return.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:297

ἐξῆς ταύτῃ καὶ ἑτέρα τις ἐπιστολὴ τοῖς ἐν Ῥώμᾐ τοῦ Διονυσίου φέρεται διακονικὴ διὰ Ἱππολύτου. τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἄλλην περὶ εἰρήνης διατυποῦται, καὶ ὡσαύτως περὶ μετανοίας, καὶ αὖ πάλιν ἄλλην τοῖς ἐκεῖσε ὁμολογηταῖς, ἔτι τῇ τοῦ Νοουάτου συμφερομένοις γνώμῃ. τοῖς δὲ αὐτοῖς τούτοις ἑτέρας δύο μεταθεμένοις ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐπιστέλλει. καὶ ἄλλοις δὲ πλείοσιν ὁμοίως διὰ γραμμάτων ὁμιλήσας ποικίλας τοῖς ἔτι νῦν σπουδὴν περὶ τοὺς λόγους αὐτοῦ ποιουμένοις καταλέλοιπεν ὠφελείας.

English · Claude translation

Next to this there is extant another letter of Dionysius to those in Rome, a diaconal one, sent by Hippolytus. To the same he writes another on peace, and likewise on repentance, and yet another to the confessors there who still agreed with the opinion of Novatus. To these same, when they had come over to the church, he writes two others. And having conversed likewise by letter with many others, he has left varied benefits to those who still study his writings.

About this passage

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)) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Diaconal” probably means a letter on service or one carried by a deacon; the sense is uncertain.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.46.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/46/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.46.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/46/5/).

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