Church History 6.8.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Having no other charge, Demetrius accused Origen and those who ordained him.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:250

τηνικαῦτα δʼ οὖν εἰς μέγα δόξης προελθόντος αὐτοῦ, ὄνομά τε παρὰ τοῖς πανταχῆ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις καὶ κλέος ἀρετῆς καὶ σοφίας οὐ σμικρὸν κτησαμένου, μηδεμιᾶς ἄλλης εὐπορῶν ὁ Δημήτριος κατηγορίας, τῆς πάλαι ἐν παιδὶ γεγονυίας αὐτῷ πράξεως δεινὴν ποιεῖται διαβολὴν, συμπεριλαβεῖν τολμήσας ταῖς κατηγορίαις τοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ πρεσβυτέριον αὐτὸν προάξαντας.

English · Claude translation

So when he had then advanced to great glory and gained no small name and fame for virtue and wisdom among all people everywhere, Demetrius, having no other charge to bring, made a grave accusation of the deed done long before when he was a boy, and dared to include in his accusations those who had advanced him to the presbyterate.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:250 · 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

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/8/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.8.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/8/5/).