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Against Hierocles

Eusebius of Caesarea · c. AD 303

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 22 (Migne) — manuscript witness to Against Hierocles
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 22 (Migne) — 1857Eastern Orthodox St. Fathers · Public domain · Commons
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Patrologia Graeca, vol. 22 (Migne) — manuscript witness to Against Hierocles

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 22 (Migne) — 1857Eastern Orthodox St. Fathers · Public domain · Commons

What this text is

Eusebius's reply to the persecutor-pamphleteer Sossianus Hierocles, who had set Apollonius of Tyana above Christ — a concession of the sage's virtue, a demolition of the comparison.

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Public-domain translations

Working translation (from the Greek)

Hierocles alone, of all who have ever written against us, set Apollonius beside and above our Saviour. Let the man be granted a place among philosophers and sages, if you will — but nothing more; the comparison refutes itself.

Manuscript witnesses

Codex Parisinus gr. 451 tradition

10th c. onward

Transmitted with Eusebius's apologetic corpus in the Byzantine tradition.

EARLIEST WITNESSES

Patrologia Graeca, vol. 22 (Migne)

1857

Standard pre-critical text (PG 22:795–868).

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Provenance

Caesarea, at the outbreak of the Great Persecution

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

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