Church History 4.18.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:167–168

ὁ μέν τίς ἐστιν αὐτῷ λόγος πρὸς Ἀντωνῖνον τὸν Εὐσεβῆ προσαγορευθέντα καὶ τοὺς τούτου παῖδας τήν τε ῾Ρωμαίων σύγκλητον προσφωνητικὸς ὑπὲρ τῶν καθʼ ἡμᾶς δογμάτων, ὁ δὲ δευτέραν περιέχων ὑπὲρ τῆς ἡμετέρας πίστεως ἀπολογίαν, ἣν πεποίηται πρὸς τὸν τοῦ δεδηλωμένου αὐτοκράτορος διάδοχόν τε καὶ ὁμώνυμον Ἀντωνῖνον Οὐῆρον, οὗ τὰ κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος διέξιμεν.

English · Claude translation

There is one discourse of his addressed to Antoninus, called Pius, and his sons and the Roman senate, on behalf of our doctrines; and another containing a second apology for our faith, which he made to the successor and namesake of the emperor mentioned, Antoninus Verus, whose times we are now describing.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:167–168 · 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

Justin, 1 Apol. (First Apology) · allusion, high confidence
Justin, 2 Apol. (Second Apology) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Eusebius's attribution of the Second Apology to Marcus Aurelius is doubtful; it was probably written under Antoninus Pius.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/18/2/).