Church History 10.4.17 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: No king but Christ has had his name and laws spread to all the earth.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:455

τίς γὰρ τῶν πώποτε βασιλέων τοσοῦτον ἀρετῆς ἠνέγκατο ὡς πάντων τῶν ἐπὶ γῆς ἀνθρώπων ἀκοὴν καὶ γλῶτταν ἐμπλῆσαι τῆς αὐτοῦ προσηγορίας; τίς βασιλεὺς νόμους εὐσεβεῖς οὕτω καὶ σώφρονας διαταξάμενος, ἀπὸ περάτων γῆς καὶ εἰς ἄκρα τῆς ὅλης οἰκουμένης εἰς ἐπήκοον ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποις ἀναγινώσκεσθαι διαρκῶς ἐκράτυνεν;

English · Claude translation

For what king ever attained such excellence as to fill the ears and tongues of all people on earth with his name? What king, having enacted laws so pious and wise, has made them strong enough to be read continually in the hearing of all people from the ends of the earth to the limits of the whole world?

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:455 · 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)

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/17/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/17/).