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Church History 3.36.9

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

Summary: Ignatius (quoted): let any torment come, if only he may attain Jesus Christ.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:129

συγγνώμην μοι ἔχετε. τί μοι συμφέ- “ρει ἐγὼ γινώσκω. νῦν ἄρχομαι μαθητὴς εἶναι. μη- “ δέν με ζηλώσαι τῶν ὁρατῶν καὶ ἀοράτων, ἔνα Ἰησοῦ “ Χριστοῦ ἐπιτύχω· πῦρ καὶ σταυρὸς, θηρίων τε συ- “ στάσεις, σκορπισμοὶ ὀστέων, συγκοπαὶ μελῶν, ἀλε- “σμοὶὅλου τοῦ σώματος, κολάσεις τοῦ διαβόλου εἰς ἐμὲ “ ἐρχέσθωσαν, μόνον ἔνα Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐπιτύχω.’’

English · Claude translation

Forgive me; I know what is to my advantage. Now I am beginning to be a disciple. May nothing of things visible and invisible envy me, that I may attain Jesus Christ. Fire and cross, and struggles with wild beasts, scatterings of bones, mangling of limbs, grinding of the whole body, cruel tortures of the devil, let them come upon me, only that I may attain Jesus Christ.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:129 · 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
  • Ign. Rom. 5.3 (To the Romans) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Ign. Rom. 5.3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.36.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/36/9/).

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