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Church History 4.15.12

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

Summary: They found him late in an upper room; he declined to flee, saying, “God's will be done.”

Greek text · Dindorf 4:156

ὀψὲ δὲ τῆς ὥρας ἐπελθόντας αὐτὸν μὲν εὑρεῖν ἐν ὑπερᾠῳ κατακείμενον, ὅθεν δυνατὸν ὄν αὐτῷ ἐφʼ ἑτέραν μεταστῆναι οὀκίαν μὴ βεβουλῆσθαι, εἰπόντα “τὸ θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ γινέσθω.”

English · Claude translation

Arriving late in the evening, they found him lying in an upper room; though he could have moved from there to another house, he had not wished to, saying, ‘The will of God be done.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:156 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Mart. Pol. 7.1 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Paraphrase of Mart. Pol. 7.1, echoing Matt 6:10 and Acts 21:14.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/12/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/12/).

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