Church History 4.17.13

Summary: Justin (quoted): Lucius confessed and was condemned too, thanking God; a third followed; Justin then foresees his own fate.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:167

καὶ ὃς οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἀποκρινάμενος καὶ πρὸς τὸν Λούκιον ἔφη ῾δοκεῖς μοι καὶ σὺ εἶναι τοιοῦτος.’ καὶ τοῦ Λουκίου φήσαντος ῾μάλισταʼ πάλιν καὶ αὐτὸν ἀπαχθῆναι ἐκέλευσεν. ὁ δὲ χάριν εἰδέναι ὡμολόγει· πονηρῶν γὰρ δεσποτῶν τῶν τοιούτων ἀπηλλάχθαι ἐπεῖπε, καὶ παρὰ ἀγαθὸν πατέρα καὶ βασιλέα τὸν θεὸν πορεύεσθαι. καὶ ἄλλος δὲ τρίτος ἐπελθὼν κολασθῆναι προσετιμήθη. ” τούτοις ὁ Ἰουστῖνος εἰκότως καὶ ἀκολούθως ἃς προεμνημονεύσαμεν αὐτοῦ φωνὰς ἐπάγει λέγων “κἀγὼ οὐν προσδοκῶ ὑπό τινος τῶν ὠνομασμένων ἐπιβουλευθῆναι” καὶ τὰ λοιπά.

English · Claude translation

And he, answering nothing else, said to Lucius too, ‘You also seem to me to be such a one.’ And when Lucius said, ‘Certainly,’ he ordered him too to be led away. He professed his thanks; for he said he was being released from such wicked masters and going to God, the good Father and King. And a third also came forward and was sentenced to be punished.” To these words Justin fittingly and consistently adds the words of his which we quoted before, saying, “I too, then, expect to be plotted against by one of those named,” and the rest.

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Source

Dindorf 4:167 · 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.

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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

Justin, 2 Apol. 2 (Second Apology) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.17.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/17/13/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.17.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/17/13/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:167

English · Claude translation

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