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Church History 6.8.4

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

Summary: Later, jealous of Origen's fame, Demetrius denounced the deed when bishops in Palestine ordained Origen presbyter.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:249–250

ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν οὗτος τοιοῦτός τις ἦν. οὐ μακροῖς δὲ χρόνοις ὕστερον ὁ αὐτὸς ὁρῶν εὖ πράττοντα, μέγαν τε καὶ λαμπρὸν καὶ παρὰ πᾶσιν ὄντα βεβοημένον, ἀνθρώπινόν τι πεπονθὼς τοῖς ἀνὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐπισκόποις καταγράφειν ὡς ἀτοπωτάτου τοῦ πραχθέντος αὐτῷ ἐπειρᾶτο, ὅτε γε τῶν κατὰ Παλαιστίνην οἱ μάλιστα δόκιμοι καὶ διαπρέποντες Καισαρείας τε καὶ Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοποι πρεσβείων τὸν Ὠριγένην καὶ τῆς ἀνωτάτω τιμῆς ἄξιον εἶναι δοκιμάσαντες χεῖρας εἰς πρεσβυτέριον αὐτῷ τεθείκασι.

English · Claude translation

Such was he at that time. But not long afterward the same man, seeing him prospering and great and illustrious and famous among all, was affected by human weakness and tried to write to the bishops throughout the world describing what he had done as most absurd, when the most approved and distinguished bishops in Palestine, those of Caesarea and Jerusalem, having judged Origen worthy of privilege and the highest honour, had laid hands on him for the presbyterate.

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Source
Dindorf 4:249–250 · 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)
Topics
Church office

Notes

Translation notes

  • Eusebius's account is sympathetic to Origen and critical of Demetrius.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/8/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/8/4/).

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