Church History 7.29.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The presbyter and rhetorician Malchion exposed Paul in a recorded debate.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:333

μάλιστα δʼ αὐτὸν εὐθύνας ἐπικρυπτόμενον διήλεγξε Μαλχίων, ἀνὴρ τά τε ἄλλα λόγιος καὶ σοφὸς, τῆς τῶν ἐπʼ Ἀντιοχείας Ἑλληνικῶν παιδευτηρίων διατριβῆς προεστὼς, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ διʼ ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως γνησιότητα πρεσβυτερίου τῆς αὐτόθι παροικίας ἠξιωμένος· οὗτός γέ τοι ἐπισημειουμένων ταχυγράφων ζήτησιν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐνστησάμενος, ἣν καὶ εἰς δεῦρο φερομένην ἴσμεν, μόνος ἴσχυσε τῶν ἄλλων κρυψίνουν ὄντα καὶ ἀπατηλὸν φωρᾶσαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

English · Claude translation

It was above all Malchion who called him to account and refuted him while he was concealing himself, a man learned and wise in other respects, head of the school of Greek learning at Antioch, and who moreover, because of the surpassing genuineness of his faith in Christ, had been deemed worthy of the presbyterate of the community there. He, conducting a disputation with Paul while shorthand writers took notes, which we know is extant to this day, alone of all was able to detect the man, who was secretive and deceitful.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:333 · 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

Heresy, Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/29/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/29/2/).