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Church History 10.4.28

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

Summary: Christ the Shepherd, having driven off the persecutors, gathered his flock again and rebuilt its fold to shame his enemies.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:459

ἐπειδὴ γὰρ τοὺς παῖδας αὖθις ὁ μέγας ποιμὴν, τοὺς θῆρας καὶ τοὺς λύκους καὶ πᾶν ἀπηνὲς καὶ ἄγριον γένος ἀποσοβήσας, καὶ τὰς μύλας τῶν λεόντων, ᾗ φησι τὰ θεῖα λόγια, συντρίψας, ἐπὶ ταὐτὸν αὖθις συνελθεῖν ἠξίωσε, δικαιότατα καὶ τῆς ποίμνης τὴν μάνδραν ἀνίστη, τοῦ καταισχῦναι ἐχθρὸν καὶ ἐκδικητὴν, καὶ ὡς ἂν ἔλεγχον ταῖς θεομάχοις τῶν ἀσεβῶν προαγάγοι τόλμαις.

English · Claude translation

For when the great Shepherd, having driven off the wild beasts and the wolves and every cruel and savage kind, and having broken “the jaws of the lions,” as the divine oracles say, deemed it right that his children should come together again in one place, he most justly also raised up the fold of the flock, “to put to shame the enemy and avenger,” and that he might bring forth a refutation of the God-fighting audacities of the ungodly.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:459 · 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)
Scripture
  • Ps 58:6 (57:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 8:2 (8:3 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Ps 58:6 (57:7 LXX) and Ps 8:2 (8:3 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/28/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/28/).

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