Church History 4.13.2

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

Summary: The ordinance (quoted): the gods themselves will punish those who refuse to worship them.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:150

ἐγὼ μὲν οἶδα ὅτι καὶ τοῖς θεοῖς ἐπιμελές ἐστι μὴ λανθάνειν τοὺς τοιούτους. πολὺ γὰρ “μᾶλλον ἐκεῖνοι κολάσαιεν ἂν τοὺς μὴ βουλομένους “ αὐτοὺς προσκυνεῖν ἢ ὑμεῖς.

English · Claude translation

I know that the gods too take care that such men do not escape notice; for they would much rather punish those unwilling to worship them than you would.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:150 · 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

Quotation from the Rescript to the Council of Asia.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/13/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/13/2/).

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