Church History 7.32.19 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:344

οἶδα πλεῖστα καὶ ἄλλα πρὸς αὐτῶν λεγόμενα, τοῦτο μὲν πιθανὰ, τοῦτο δὲ κατὰ τὰς κυριακὰς ἀποδείξεις προϊόντα, διʼ ὧν παριστάνειν πειρῶνται, τὴν τοῦ πάσχα καὶ τῶν ἀζύμων ἑορτὴν δεῖν πάντως μετʼ ἰσημερίαν ἄγεσθαι· παρίημι δὲ τὰς τοιαύτας τῶν ἀποδείξεων ὕλας ἀπαιτῶν, ὧν περιῄρηται μὲν τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ Μωυσέως νόμῳ κάλυμμα, ἀνακεκαλυμμένῳ δὲ τῷ προσώπῳ λοιπὸν ἤδη Χριστὸν καὶ τὰ Χριστοῦ ἀεὶ κατοπτρίζεσθαι μαθήματά τε καὶ παθήματα. τοῦ δὲ τὸν πρῶτον παρʼ Ἑβραί- “οις μῆνα περὶ ἰσημερίαν εἶναι παραστατικὰ καὶ τὰ “ἐν τῷ Ἐνὼχ μαθήματα.“

English · Claude translation

I know that very many other things are said by them, some plausible, others advancing to strict demonstrations, by which they try to prove that the feast of the Pascha and of unleavened bread must by all means be kept after the equinox. But I pass over requiring such materials of proof from those for whom the veil over the law of Moses has been removed, and who with unveiled face may now always behold as in a mirror Christ and the teachings and sufferings of Christ. That the first month among the Hebrews is about the equinox is shown also by the teachings in Enoch.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:344 · 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)

Scripture

2 Cor 3:18 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

1 En. 72 (1 Enoch) · allusion, high confidence
Anatolius of Laodicea, Anatolius, Pasch. (Anatolius of Laodicea, On the Pascha) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

End of the quotation from Anatolius, alluding to 2 Cor 3:14–18 and to 1 Enoch 72 (the astronomical book). The digital text reads Ἐωὼχ for Ἐνώχ and repeats a syllable (“ὄις”).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text; repeated syllable in the digital text; stray mark in the digital text): προι·όντα → προϊόντα; “οις ὄις μῆνα → “οις μῆνα; Ἐωὼχ → Ἐνὼχ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/19/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.19 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/19/).