Church History 10.5.9 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:474–475

καὶ τοῦτο δὲ πρὸς τοῖς λοιποῖς εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον τῶν Χριστιανῶν δογματίζομεν, ἵνα τοὺς τόπους αὐτῶν, εἰς οὓς τὸ πρότερον συνέρχεσθαι ἔθος ἦν αὐτοῖς, περὶ ὧν καὶ τοῖς πρότερον δοθεῖσι πρὸς τὴν σὴν καθοσίωσιν γράμμασι τύπος ἕτερος ἦν ὡρισμένος τῷ προτέρῳ χρόνῳ, ἵνʼ, εἴ τινες ἢ παρὰ τοῦ ταμείου τοῦ ἡμετέρου, ἢ παρά τινος ἑτέρου φαίνοιντο ἠγορακότες τούτους, τοῖς αὐτοῖς Χριστιανοῖς ἄνευ ἀργυρίου καὶ ἄνευ τινὸς ἀπαιτήσεως τῆς τιμῆς ὑπερτεθείσης, δίχα πάσης ἀμελείας καὶ ἀμφιβολίας, ἀποκαταστήσωσι· καὶ εἴ τινες κατὰ δῶρον τυγχάνουσιν εἰληφότες τοὺς αὐτοὺς τόπους, ὅπως τοῖς αὐτοῖς Χριστιανοῖς τὴν ταχίστην ἀποκαταστήσωσιν·

English · Claude translation

And this too, in addition to the rest, we decree in regard to the Christians: that their places, in which they formerly used to assemble, and concerning which a different rule had been laid down in the letters previously sent to your devotion, if any appear to have bought them either from our treasury or from anyone else, they shall restore them to these same Christians without payment and without any demand for the price, setting aside all negligence and hesitation; and if any happen to have received the same places as a gift, they shall restore them as quickly as possible to these same Christians;

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:474–475 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Lactantius, Mort. 48.7 (On the Deaths of the Persecutors) · echo, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): ἔνα τοὺς τόπους → ἵνα τοὺς τόπους; ἔθος ἢν αὐτοῖς → ἔθος ἦν αὐτοῖς; ἔνʼ, εἴ τινες → ἵνʼ, εἴ τινες.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/9/).