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Church History 4.16.2

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

Summary: Justin foretold this in his apology.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:163

τοῦτο δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ ταῖς ἀληθείαις φιλοσοφώτατος ἐν τῇ δεδηλωμένῃ ἀπολογίᾳ σαφῶς οὕτως, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ ἔμελλεν ὅσον οὔπω περὶ αὐτὸν συμβήσεσθαι, προλαβὼν ἀποσημαίνει τούτοις αὐτοῖς τοῖς ῥήμασι

English · Claude translation

This the truly most philosophical man himself clearly indicates beforehand in the apology mentioned, as though it were about to happen to him very soon, in these very words:

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Source
Dindorf 4:163 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/2/).

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