Church History 10.4.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:452

καὶ μὴ μόνον γε ὁ καθεῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἷ πάντες ἀθρόως ἐνὶ πνεύματι καὶ μιᾷ ψυχῇ γεραίροντες ἀνευφημῶμεν, “μέγας κύριος, ’’ ἐπιλέγοντες, “καὶ αἰνετὸς σφόδρα, ἐν πόλει τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν, ἐν ὄρει ἁγίῳ αὐτοῦ. καὶ γὰρ οὖν μέγας ὡς ἀληθῶς, καὶ μέγας ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ, ὑψηλὸς καὶ ἐπιμήκης, καὶ ὡραῖος κάλλει παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· μέγας ὁ κύριος ὁ ποιῶν θαυμάσια μόνος· μέγας ὁ ποιῶν μεγάλα καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστα, ἔνδοξά τε καὶ ἐξαίσια, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός· μέγας ὁ ἀλλοιῶν καιροὺς καὶ χρόνους, μεθιστῶν βασιλεῖς καὶ καθιστῶν, ἐγείρων ἀπὸ γῆς πτωχὸν, καὶ ἀπὸ κοπρίας ἀνιστῶν πένητα. καθεῖλε δυνάστας ἀπὸ θρόνων, καὶ ὕψωσε ταπεινοὺς ἀπὸ γῆς, πεινῶντας ἐνέπλησεν ἀγαθῶν, καὶ βραχίονας ὑπερηφάνων συνέτριψεν, ’’

English · Claude translation

And not only each one singly, but all together, with one spirit and one soul, let us honor and praise him, saying: “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.” For he is truly great, and great is his house, lofty and long, and “fair in beauty beyond the sons of men.” Great is the Lord “who alone does wonders”; great is he who does “great and unsearchable things, glorious and marvelous, of which there is no number”; great is he who “changes times and seasons, removes kings and sets them up,” “raising the poor from the earth and lifting the needy from the dunghill.” “He has brought down rulers from their thrones and exalted the lowly from the earth; he has filled the hungry with good things and broken the arms of the proud,”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:452 · 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 48:1 (47:2 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 45:2 (44:3 LXX) · quotation, medium confidence
Ps 136:4 (135:4 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Job 9:10 · quotation, high confidence
Dan 2:21 · quotation, high confidence
Ps 113:7 (112:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
1 Sam 2:8 · echo, medium confidence
Luke 1:51–53 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Ps 48:1 (47:2 LXX), Ps 45:2 (44:3 LXX), Ps 136:4 (135:4 LXX), Job 9:10, Dan 2:21, Ps 113:7 (112:7 LXX; compare 1 Sam 2:8), and Luke 1:51–53, freely combined.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (word wrongly divided in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): ἡ μῶν → ἡμῶν; καἰ χρόνους → καὶ χρόνους.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/8/).