Church History 4.15.43

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): the centurion burned the body; the Christians gathered the precious bones and laid them to rest.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:161–162

ἰδὼν οὖν ὁ ἑκατοντάρχης τὴν τῶν Ἰουδαίων γενομένην φιλονεικίαν, θεὶς αὐτὸν ἐν μέσῳ, ὡς ἔθος αὐτοῖς, ἔκαυσεν. οὕτως τε “ἡμεῖς ὕστερον ἀνελόμενοι τὰ τιμιώτερα λίθων πο- “λυτελῶν καὶ δοκιμώτερα ὑπὲρ χρυσίον ὀστᾶ αὐτου “ ἀπεθέμεθα ὅπου καὶ ἀκόλουθον ἦν.

English · Claude translation

So the centurion, seeing the contentiousness of the Jews, set the body in the midst, as is their custom, and burned it. And so we afterwards took up his bones, more precious than costly stones and more valuable than gold, and laid them where it was fitting.

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Source

Dindorf 4:161–162 · 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. 18.1–2 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 18.1–2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.43 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/43/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.43 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/43/).

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