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Church History 7.21.3

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

Summary: It is easier to travel from east to west than across Alexandria.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:317

πρὸς γοῦν τὰ ἐμαυτοῦ σπλάγχνα, τοὺς “ὁμοσκήνους καὶ συμψύχους ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ‘πολίτας ἐκκλησίας ἐπιστολιμαίων δέομαι γραμμάτων, καὶ ταῦθʼ ὅπως διαπεμψαίμην, ἀμήχανον “φαίνεται. ῥᾷον γὰρ ἄν τις οὐχ ὅπως εἰς τὴν ὑπερ- “όριον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπʼ ἀνατολῶν ἐπὶ δυσμὰς περαιωθείη, ἢ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἀπʼ αὐτῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπέλθοι.

English · Claude translation

For I need letters to reach my own heart, the brothers who share my home and soul and are citizens of the same church; and how to send them seems impossible. For it would be easier for one to cross not only to a foreign country but even from east to west, than to go from Alexandria to Alexandria itself.

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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

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/3/).

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