Church History 7.6.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:300

Σημαίνων δὲ ἐν ταὐτῷ καὶ περὶ τῶν κατὰ Σαβέλλιον αἱρετικῶν ὡς κατʼ αὐτὸν ἐπιπολαζόντων ταῦτά φησι “περὶ γὰρ τοῦ νῦν “κινηθέντος ἐν τῇ Πτολεμαίδι τῆς Πενταπόλεως “δόγματος, ὄντος ἀσεβοῦς καὶ βλασφημίαν πολλὴν “ἔχοντος περὶ τοῦ παντοκράτορος θεοῦ, πατρὸς τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἀπιστίαν τε πολλὴν περὶ τοῦ μονογενοῦς παιδὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ πρωτοτόκου πάσης κτίσεως, τοῦ ἐνανθρωπήσαντος λόγου, ἀναισθησίαν δὲ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἐλθόντων ἑκατέ- ‟πωθεν πρὸς ἐμὲ καὶ προγραμμάτων καὶ τῶν διαλεξομένων ἀδελφῶν, ἐπέστειλά τινα ὡς ἐδυνήθην, παρασχόντος τοῦ θεοῦ, διδασκαλικώτερον ὑφηγούμενος, ὧν τὰ ἀντίγραφα ἔπεμψά σοι.

English · Claude translation

Indicating in the same letter also that the Sabellian heretics were then spreading, he says this: “As for the doctrine now stirred up in Ptolemais of the Pentapolis, which is impious and full of blasphemy against the almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of much unbelief about his only-begotten Son, the firstborn of all creation, the Word made man, and of insensibility to the Holy Spirit — since both documents and brothers to discuss it came to me from both sides, I wrote some letters as I could, with God's help, setting the matter out rather didactically, copies of which I have sent you.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:300 · 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

Col 1:15 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Trinity, Heresy, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, Second Letter on Baptism; cf. Col 1:15. Sabellianism treated Father, Son, and Spirit as one person under different names.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): κινηθέντος έν τῇ → κινηθέντος ἐν τῇ; ἐκατέ- → ἑκατέ-.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/6/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/6/1/).