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Church History 7.21.2

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

Summary: Dionysius to Hierax: in the strife he can hardly communicate even with himself.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:317

καὶ Ἱέρακι δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα τῶν κατʼ Αἴγυπτον ἐπισκόπῳ ἑτέραν ἑορταστικὴν ἐπιστολὴν γράφων, τῆς κατʼ αὐτὸν τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων στάσεως μνημονεύει διὰ τούτων ‘ἐμοὶ δὲ τί θαυμαστὸν εἰ πρὸς τοὺς πορρω- “τέρω παροικοῦντας χαλεπὸν τὸ κἂν διʼ ἐπιστολῶν “ὁμιλεῖν, ὅτε καὶ τὸ πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν αὐτῷ μοι διαλέγε- “σθαι καὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ ψυχῇ συμβουλεύεσθαι καθέστηκεν ἄπορον;

English · Claude translation

And later, writing another festal letter to Hierax, a bishop in Egypt, he mentions the faction of the Alexandrians in his time in these words: “What wonder is it to me if it is hard to converse even by letter with those who live farther away, when it has become impossible even to talk with myself and take counsel with my own soul?

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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)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, Festal Letter to Hierax (to 7.21.10).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/2/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/2/).

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