Church History 7.30.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The synod sent a circular letter to Rome, Alexandria, and all provinces about Paul.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:333

Μίαν δὴ οὖν ἐκ κοινῆς γνώμης οἱ ἐπὶ ταὐτὸ συγκεκροτημένοι ποιμένες διαχαράξαντες ἐπιστολὴν εἰς πρόσωπον τοῦ τε Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκόπου Διονυσίου καὶ Μαξίμου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐπὶ πάσας διαπέμπονται τὰς ἐπαρχίας, τὴν αὐτῶν τε σπουδὴν τοῖς πᾶσι φανερὰν καθιστάντες, καὶ τοῦ Παύλου τὴν διάστροφον ἑτεροδοξίαν, ἐλέγχους τε καὶ ἐρωτήσεις ἃς πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀνακεκινήκασι, καὶ ἔτι τὸν πάντα βίον τε καὶ τρόπον τοῦ ἀνδρὸς διηγούμενοι· ἐξ ὧν μνήμης ἕνεκεν καλῶς ἂν ἔχοι ταύτας αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος διελθεῖν τὰς φωνάς

English · Claude translation

The pastors assembled together, then, composed with common consent one letter addressed to Dionysius, bishop of the Romans, and Maximus of Alexandria, and sent it to all the provinces, making their zeal manifest to all, and relating Paul's perverse heterodoxy, the refutations and questions they had raised against him, and moreover the whole life and conduct of the man. It would be well, for the sake of record, to go through these words of theirs at present:

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)

Extrabiblical texts

Ep. syn. Ant. (Synodal Letter against Paul of Samosata) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Church office

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/30/1/).