Church History 4.15.34

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): he prayed to be received as an acceptable sacrifice.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:160

ἐν οἷς προσδεχθείην ἐνώπιόν σου σήμερον “ θυσίᾳ πίονι καὶ προσδεκτῇ, καθὼς “ προφανερώσας καὶ πληρώσας ὁ ἀψευδὴς καὶ ἀληθι “νὸς θεός.

English · Claude translation

among whom may I be received before you today as a rich and acceptable sacrifice, as you, the God who does not lie and is true, prepared beforehand, revealed beforehand, and have fulfilled.

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Source

Dindorf 4:160 · 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. 14.2 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 14.2. The digital text has lost προετοιμάσας after καθὼς.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.34 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/34/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.34 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/34/).

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