Church History 2.22.7

Summary: Paul was not martyred during the Roman stay that Acts records.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:75

ταῦτα δὲ ἡμῖν εἴρηται παρισταμένοις ὅτι μὴ καθʼ ἣν ὁ Λουκᾶς ἀνέγραψεν ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥώμης ἐπιδημίαν τοῦ Παύλου τὸ μαρτύριον αὐτῷ συνεπεράνθη.

We have said this to show that Paul's martyrdom was not accomplished during the stay in Rome which Luke recorded.

Source: Dindorf 4:75 · 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)

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.22.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.22.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/7/).