Church History 4.15.29

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): the crowd, especially the Jews, quickly gathered wood for the pyre.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:159

ταῦτα οὖν μετὰ τοσούτου “τάχους ἐγένετο, θᾶττον ἢ ἐλέγετο, τῶν ὄχλων πα- “ραχρῆμα συναγόντων ἐκ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων καὶ ἐκ “τῶν βαλανείων ξύλα καὶ φρύγανα, μάλιστα Ἰου- “δαίων προθύμως, ὡς ἔθος αὐτοῖς, εἰς ταῦτα ὑπουρ- “γούντων.

English · Claude translation

These things, then, happened with such speed, faster than could be told, the crowds at once gathering wood and brushwood from the workshops and the baths, the Jews especially helping eagerly in this, as is their custom.

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Source

Dindorf 4:159 · 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

Mart. Pol. 13.1 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 13.1. The hostile remark about the Jews is the Smyrnaean letter's own.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/29/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/29/).

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