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Church History 10.4.52

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

Summary: The church will marvel at the children who have come to her after her bereavement.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:466

ἐροῦσι γὰρ εἰς τὰ ὦτά σου οἶ υἱοί σου οὓς ἀπολώλεκας, στενός μοι ὁ τόπος, ποίησόν μοι τόπον ἵνα κατοικήσω. καὶ ἐρεῖς ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, τίς ἐγέννησέ μοι τούτους; ἐγὼ δὲ ἄτεκνος καὶ χήρα, τούτους δὲ τίς ἐξέθρεψέ μοι; ἐγὼ δὲ κατελείφθην μόνη, οὗτοι δέ μοι ποῦ ἦσαν;”

English · Claude translation

For your sons whom you had lost will say in your ears: The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell. And you will say in your heart: Who has borne me these? I was childless and a widow; and who has brought up these for me? I was left alone; and where were these?”

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Source
Dindorf 4:466 · 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 49:20–21 (LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.52 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/52/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.52 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/52/).

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