Church History 7.9.1

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: In his fifth letter Dionysius asks Xystus's advice about a difficult case.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:302

Καὶ ἡ πέμπτη δὲ αὐτῷ πρὸς τὸν Ῥωμαίων ἐπίσκοπον Ξυστὸν ἐγέγραπτο, ἐν ἡ πολλὰ κατὰ τῶν αἱρετικῶν εἰπὼν τοιοῦτόν τι γεγονὸς κατʼ αὐτὸν ἐκτίθεται λέγων· ‟καὶ γὰρ ὄντως, “ἀδελφὲ, καὶ συμβουλῆς δέομαι, καὶ γνώμην αἰτῶ παρὰ σοῦ, τοιούτου τινός μοι προσελθόντος πρά- ‘γματος, δεδιὼς μὴ ἄρα σφάλλωμαι.

English · Claude translation

His fifth letter was written to Xystus, bishop of the Romans; in it, after saying much against the heretics, he sets out something that happened in his time, saying: “For truly, brother, I need counsel and ask your judgment, since such a matter has come before me, fearing that I may be mistaken.

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Source

Dindorf 4:302 · 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

Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, Fifth Letter on Baptism, to Xystus (to 7.9.5).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/9/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/9/1/).

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