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Church History 10.4.15

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

Summary: Christ, the Angel of Great Counsel and God's commander, suddenly destroyed the persecutors and glorified his faithful before heaven and earth.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:454–455

αὖθις ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς ὁ τῆς μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγελος, ὁ μέγας ἀρχιστράτηγος τοῦ θεοῦ, μετὰ τὴν αὐτάρκη διαγυμνασίαν, ἣν οἶ μέγιστοι τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας στρατιῶται διὰ τῆς πρὸς ἅπαντα ὑπομονῆς καὶ καρτερίας ἐνεδείξαντο, ἀθρόως οὕτως φανεὶς τὰ μὲν ἐχθρὰ καὶ πολέμια εἰς ἀφανὲς καὶ τὸ μηδὲν κατεστήσατο, ὡς μηδὲ πώποτε ὠνομάσθαι δοκεῖν, τὰ δʼ αὐτῷ φίλα καὶ οἰκεῖα δόξης ἐπέκεινα παρὰ πᾶσιν οὐκ ἀνθρώποις μόνον, ἀλλʼ ἤδη καὶ δυνάμεσιν οὐρανίοις, ἡλίῳ τε καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ ἄστροις καὶ τῷ σύμπαντι οὐρανῷ τε καὶ κόσμῳ προήγαγεν,

English · Claude translation

then once again the Angel of Great Counsel, the great Commander-in-chief of God, after the sufficient training that the greatest soldiers of his kingdom had shown by their endurance and steadfastness in all things, appeared suddenly and reduced his enemies and foes to nothing and oblivion, so that they seemed never to have been named, while those who were his friends and his own he raised beyond glory before all, not only men but also the heavenly powers, sun and moon and stars and the whole heaven and world,

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:454–455 · 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
  • Isa 9:6 (9:5 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
  • Josh 5:14 · echo, medium confidence
Topics
Christology, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Angel of Great Counsel” is Isa 9:6 (9:5 LXX); “Commander-in-chief” recalls Josh 5:14.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/15/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/15/).

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