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Church History 10.4.32

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

Summary: Isaiah calls the desert to rejoice and blossom, the weak to take courage, for God will save and make water spring up in the wilderness.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:460

“εὐφράνθητι ἔρημος διψῶσα, ἀγαλλιάσθω ἔρημος, καὶ ἀνθείτω ὡς κρίνον· καὶ ἐξανθήσει καὶ ἀγαλλιάσεται τὰ ἔρημα. ἰσχύσατε χεῖρες ἀνειμέναι καὶ γόνατα παραλελυμένα· παρακαλέσατε, ὀλιγόψυχοι τῇ διανοίᾳ, ἰσχύσατε, μὴ φοβεῖσθε. ἰδοὺ ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν κρίσιν ἀνταποδίδωσι καὶ ἀνταποδώσει, αὐτὸς ἥξει καὶ σώσει ἡμᾶς· ὅτι, φησὶν, ἐρράγη ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ὕδωρ, καὶ φάραγξ ἐν γῇ διψώσῃ, καὶ ἡ ἄνυδρος ἔσται εἰς ἕλη, καὶ εἰς τὴν διψῶσαν γῆν πηγὴ ὕδατος ἔσται.’’

English · Claude translation

“Rejoice, thirsty desert; let the desert be glad and blossom like a lily, and the desert places shall blossom and be glad. Be strong, you weak hands and feeble knees; be comforted, you faint of heart; be strong, do not fear. Behold, our God repays judgment and will repay; he himself will come and save us. For,” he says, “water has broken out in the desert, and a stream in a thirsty land; and the dry ground shall become marshes, and in the thirsty land there shall be a spring of water.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:460 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Isa 35:1–2, 3–4, 6–7 (LXX), abridged.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.32 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/32/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.32 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/32/).

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