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Church History 7.21.1

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

Summary: Back in Alexandria during civil strife, Dionysius could reach his own flock only by letter.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:317

Ἐπιλαβούσης δὲ ὅσον οὔπω τῆς εἰρήνης ἐπάνεισι μὲν εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, πάλιν δʼ ἐνταῦθα στάσεως καὶ πολέμου συστάντος, ὡς οὐχ οἷόν τε ἦν αὐτῷ τοὺς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἅπαντας ἀδελφοὺς εἰς ἑκάτερον τῆς στάσεως μέρος διῃρημένους ἐπισκοπεῖν, αὖθις ἐν τῇ τοῦ πάσχα ἑορτῇ ὥσπερ τις ὑπερόριος ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας διὰ γραμμάτων αὐτοῖς ὡμίλει.

English · Claude translation

When peace had scarcely taken hold, he returned to Alexandria; but there again faction and war arose, so that he could not oversee all the brothers in the city, who were divided between the two sides of the conflict. So again at the feast of the Pascha, as though in exile, from Alexandria itself he addressed them by letter.

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Source
Dindorf 4:317 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • The civil war is probably the revolt of Aemilianus (ca. 261–262).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/1/).

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