Church History 7.24.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:323

“ἐπεὶ δὲ σύνταγμά τι προκομίζουσι Νέπωτος, ᾧ λίαν ἐπερείδονται ὡς ἀναντιρρήτως ἀποδεικνύντι τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ βασιλείαν ἐπὶ γῆς ἔσεσθαι, ἐν ἄλλοις μὲν πολλοῖς ἀποδέχομαι καὶ ἀγαπῶ Νέπωτα, τῆς τε πίστεως καὶ τῆς φιλοπονίας καὶ τῆς ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς διατριβῆς καὶ τῆς πολλῆς ψαλμῳδίας, ᾑ μέχρι νῦν πολλοὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν εὐθυμοῦνται, καὶ πάνυ διʼ αἰδοῦς ἄγω τὸν ἄνθρωπον ταύτῃ μᾶλλον, ᾗ προανεπαύσατο, ἀλλὰ φίλη γὰρ καὶ προτιμοτάτη πάντων ἡ ἀλήθεια) ἐπαινεῖν τε χρὴ καὶ συναινεῖν ἀφθόνως, εἴ τι ὀρθῶς λέγοιτο, ἐξετάζειν δὲ καὶ διευθύνειν, εἴ τι μὴ φαίνοιτο ὑγιῶς ἀναγεγραμμένον.

English · Claude translation

“But since they bring forward a certain treatise of Nepos, on which they rely greatly as proving beyond dispute that the kingdom of Christ will be on earth, I accept and love Nepos in many other respects, for his faith and industry and diligence in the Scriptures and his abundant psalmody, by which many of the brothers are cheered to this day; and I hold the man in great respect, all the more because he has gone to his rest before us. But truth is dear and to be honoured above all things; and one must praise and approve ungrudgingly whatever is said rightly, but examine and correct whatever does not appear to have been written soundly.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:323 · 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

Topics

Eschatology, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, On Promises (to 7.25.27).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): ταύτῃ μαλλοῦ, → ταύτῃ μᾶλλον,; εἴ τι ὀρθός λέγοιτο → εἴ τι ὀρθῶς λέγοιτο.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.24.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/24/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.24.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/24/4/).