Church History 7.5.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:299

“Ἴσθι δὲ νῦν, ἀδελφὲ, ὅτι ἥνωνται “αἱ πρότερον διεσχισμέναι κατά τε τὴν ‟ἐκκλησίαι καὶ ἔτι προσωτέρω. καὶ πάντες εἰσὶν “ὁμόφρονες οἱ πανταχοῦ προεστῶτες, χαίροντες καθʼ “ὑπερβολὴν ἐπὶ τῇ παρὰ προσδοκίαν εἰρήνῃ γενο- ‟μένῃ, Δημητριανὸς ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ, Θεόκτιστος ἐν ‟Καισαρείᾳ, Μαζαβάνης ἐν Αἰλίᾳ, Μαρῖνος ἐν Τυρῷ ῾κοιμηθέντος Ἀλεξάνδρου, Ἡλιόδωρος ἐν Λαοδικείᾳ ‟ἀναπαυσαμένου Θηλυμίδρου, Ἕλενος ἐν Ταρσῷ καὶ ‘πᾶσαι αἶ τῆς Κιλικίας ἐκκλησίαι, Φιρμιλλιανὸς καὶ πᾶσα Καππαδοκία. τοὺς γὰρ περιφανεστέρους μό- ‟νους τῶν ἐπισκόπων ὠνόμασα, ἵνα μήτε μῆκος τῇ ‟ἐπιστολῇ μήτε βάρος προσάψω τῷ λόγῳ.

English · Claude translation

“Know now, brother, that the churches formerly divided throughout the East and still further have been united; and all who preside everywhere are of one mind, rejoicing exceedingly at the peace that has come beyond expectation: Demetrianus in Antioch, Theoctistus in Caesarea, Mazabanes in Aelia, Marinus in Tyre (Alexander having fallen asleep), Heliodorus in Laodicea (Thelymidres having gone to rest), Helenus in Tarsus and all the churches of Cilicia, Firmilian and all Cappadocia. For I have named only the more prominent bishops, so as not to make my letter long or my words burdensome.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:299 · 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

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, First Letter on Baptism, to Stephen. The word “East” (ἀνατολὴν) is lost in the digital text.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray marks in the digital text): τοὺ ’ς γὰρ → τοὺς γὰρ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/5/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/5/1/).