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Church History 2.14.6

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

Summary: Providence brought Peter to Rome under Claudius to oppose Simon and preach the kingdom.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:63

οὐ μὴν εἰς μακρὸν αὐτῷ ταῦτα προυχώρει. παρὰ πόδας γοῦν ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς Κλαυδίου βασιλείας ἡ πανάγαθος καὶ φιλανθρωποτάτη τῶν ὅλων πρόνοια τὸν καρτερὸν καὶ μέγαν τῶν ἀποστόλων, τὸν ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα τῶν λοιπῶν ἀπάντων προήγορον, Πέτρον, ἐπὶ τὴν ῾Ρώμην ὡς ἐπὶ τηλικοῦτον λυμεῶνα βίου χειραγωγεῖ, ὃς οἷά τις γενναῖος θεοῦ στρατηγὸς τοῖς θείοις ὅπλοις φραξάμενος τὴν πολυτίμητον ἐμπορίαν τοῦ νοητοῦ φωτὸς ἐξ ἀνατολῶν τοῖς κατὰ δύσιν ἐκόμιζεν, φῶς αὐτὸ καὶ λόγον ψυχῶν σωτήριον, τὸ κήρυγμα τῆς τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείας εὐαγγελιζόμενος.

English · Claude translation

But this did not prosper for him long. Close on his heels, in the same reign of Claudius, the all-good and most kindly providence of the universe led Peter, the strong and great one among the apostles, who because of his virtue was the spokesman for all the rest, to Rome as against so great a destroyer of life. Like a noble general of God, armed with divine weapons, he brought the precious merchandise of the spiritual light from the east to those in the west, proclaiming the light itself and the word that saves souls, the preaching of the kingdom of heaven.

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Source
Dindorf 4:63 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • The tradition of Peter's arrival in Rome under Claudius is not attested before Eusebius and is historically doubtful.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/14/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.14.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/14/6/).

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