Church History 10.4.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:450–451

Ὦ φίλοι θεοῦ καὶ ἱερεῖς, οἱ τὸν ἄγιον ποδήρη καὶ τὸν οὐράνιον τῆς δόξης στέφανον τό τε χρῖσμα τὸ ἔνθεον καὶ τὴν ἱερατικὴν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος στολὴν περιβεβλημένοι, σύ τε, ὦ νέου ἁγίου νεὼ θεοῦ σεμνολόγημα, γεραρᾷ μὲν φρονήσει παρὰ θεοῦ τετιμημένε, νέας δὲ καὶ ἀκμαζούσης ἀρετῆς ἔργα πολυτελῆ καὶ πράξεις ἐπιδεδειγμένε, ᾧ τὸν ἐπὶ γῆς οἶκον αὐτὸς ὁ τὸν σύμπαντα κόσμον περιέχων θεὸς δείμασθαι καὶ ἀνανεοῦν Χριστῷ τῷ μονογενεῖ καὶ πρωτογενεῖ αὐτοῦ λόγῳ, τῇ τε ἁγίᾳ καὶ θεοπρεπεῖ τούτου νύμφῃ, γέρας ἐξαίρετον δεδώρηται·

English · Claude translation

[Eusebius's panegyric at Tyre:] “Friends of God and priests, you who are clothed in the holy robe reaching to the feet, the heavenly crown of glory, the divine anointing, and the priestly garment of the Holy Spirit; and you, the pride of God's new holy temple, honored by God with the wisdom of age, yet showing forth the costly works and deeds of youthful and flourishing virtue, to whom God himself, who encompasses the whole world, has granted the special honor of building and renewing the house on earth for Christ, his only-begotten and first-born Word, and for his holy and godly bride;

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:450–451 · 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

Exod 28:4 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The robe reaching to the feet recalls the high priest's robe (Exod 28:4). The bride is the church.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray number in the digital text): περιβεβλημένοι 5 σύ → περιβεβλημένοι, σύ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/2/).