Primary source · Koine Greek
The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret
Theodoret of Cyrus · c. AD 449
What this text is
The Antiochene continuation of Eusebius, from Nicaea to 428 — the fullest documentary file on the Arian wars from the Nicene side, with the letters entered whole.
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Public-domain translations
Blomfield Jackson (NPNF, 1892)
Arius, plying his tongue against Christ… was the first to cry that the Son was made out of nothing; the church of Alexandria mourned, and the sickness spread from see to see.
Manuscript witnesses
Byzantine minuscule tradition
11th c. onwardThe Church History in the standard corpora, rich in transcribed documents — Arius's letter among them.
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 82 (Migne)
1859Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Cyrrhus, c. AD 449 — the Antiochene continuation of Eusebius
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Theodoret: Kirchengeschichte (GCS 44)L. Parmentier, rev. G. C. Hansen, 1998The critical edition.
- Théodoret de Cyr: Histoire ecclésiastique (SC 501, 530)A. Martin, P. Canivet et al., 2006–2009Critical text with French translation.
Figures named in this text (34)
- Secundus of Ptolemais
- Theonas of Marmarica
- James of Nisibis
- Theognis of Nicaea
- Leontius of Antioch
- Emperor Julian the Apostate
- Juventinus the Guardsman
- Mark of Arethusa
- Maximinus the Guardsman
- Emperor Jovian
- Acacius of Caesarea
- Eudoxius of Antioch and Constantinople
- Ursacius of Singidunum
- Ephrem the Syrian
- Emperor Valentinian I
- Emperor Valens
- Lucius of Alexandria
- Basil the Great
- Eusebius of Samosata
- Peter II of Alexandria
- Emperor Gratian
- Isaac of Dalmatia
- Aelia Flaccilla
- Cyril of Jerusalem
- Paulinus of Antioch
- Flavius Butheric
- Emperor Valentinian II
- Eugenius
- Emperor Theodosius I
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Ambrose of Milan
- Nectarius of Constantinople
- Abdas of Susa
- Theodoret of Cyrus