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Church History 10.4.27

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

Summary: Paulinus rallied the people so that the church that had suffered persecution might share in God's generosity.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:458–459

ὁ δὲ πρῶτον αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ ἔργον ἐγείρας, εἶτα δὲ τὸν σύμπαντα λαὸν προθυμίᾳ ῥώσας καὶ μίαν ἐξ ἁπάντων μεγάλην χεῖρα συναγαγὼν, πρῶτον ἆθλον ἠγωνίζετο, αὐτὴν δὴ μάλιστα τὴν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν πεπολιορκημένην, αὐτὴν τὴν προπονήσασαν, καὶ τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἡμῖν καὶ πρὸ ἡμῶν διωγμοὺς ὑπομείνασαν, τὴν μητρὸς δίκην τῶν τέκνων ἐρημωθεῖσαν ἐκκλησίαν συναπολαῦσαι δεῖν οἰόμενος τῆς τοῦ παναγάθου μεγαλοδωρεᾶς.

English · Claude translation

But he first roused himself to the work, then strengthened the whole people with eagerness and gathered all into one great hand, and so fought the first contest, thinking that the very church which had been besieged by the enemy, which had labored before and endured the same persecutions with us and before us, which like a mother had been bereaved of her children, ought to share in the enjoyment of the munificence of the all-good God.

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Source
Dindorf 4:458–459 · 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
Persecution

Notes

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  • Digital text corrected (missing space in the digital text): ὑπὸτῶν → ὑπὸ τῶν.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.27 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/27/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.27 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/27/).

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