Church History 10.4.34 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:461

μέτρῳ δῆτα κατὰ τὸ δέον ἐπιστραφεῖσα, αὖθις ἄνωθεν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς ἀγαλλιᾶν προστάττεται, ἐξανθεῖ τε ὡς κρίνον, καὶ τῆς ἐνθέου εὐωδίας εἰς πάντας ἀποπνεῖ ἀνθρώπους· ὅτι, φησὶν, ἐρράγη ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ὕδωρ, τὸ νᾶμα τῆς θείας τοῦ σωτηρίου λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας· καὶ νῦν γέγονεν ἡ πρὸ μικροῦ ἔρημος εἰς ἕλη, καὶ εἰς τὴν διψῶσαν γῆν ἔβρυσε πηγὴ ὕδατος ζῶντος· ἴσχυσάν τε ὡς ἀληθῶς χεῖρες αἱ τὸ πρὶν ἀνειμέναι, καὶ τῆς τῶν χειρῶν ἰσχύος ἔργα τάδε τὰ μεγάλα καὶ ἐναργῆ δείγματα· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πάλαι σεσαθρωμένα καὶ παρειμένα γόνατα τὰς οἰκείας ἀπολαβόντα βάσεις, τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς θεογνωσίας εὐθυποροῦντα βαδίζει, ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκείαν ποίμνην τοῦ παναγάθου ποιμένος σπεύδοντα.

English · Claude translation

Having been turned back in due measure, she is now commanded to rejoice anew once more, and she blossoms like a lily and breathes forth her divine fragrance to all people. For, he says, “water has broken out in the desert,” the stream of the divine regeneration of the saving washing; and now what was a little before a desert has become marshes, and in the thirsty land a spring of living water has gushed forth; and the hands that were formerly weak have truly become strong, and these great works are clear proofs of the strength of those hands. And the knees that were long rotten and feeble, having recovered their proper footing, walk straight on the road of the knowledge of God, hastening to their own flock of the all-good Shepherd.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:461 · 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

Isa 35:6 · quotation, high confidence
Isa 35:3 · allusion, high confidence
Titus 3:5 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Isa 35:1–3, 6–7 and Titus 3:5 (“washing of regeneration”).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): έν τῇ ἐρήμῳ → ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.34 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/34/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.34 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/34/).