Church History 4.7.14 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: In time the slanders died away, and Christian teaching was acknowledged for its dignity and purity.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:144

συναπέσβη γοῦν τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ ἡ κατὰ παντὸς τοῦ δόγματος διαβολὴ, ἔμενε δὲ μόνη ἄρα κρατοῦσʼ καὶ ἀνομολογουμένη τὰ μάλιστα διαπρέπειν ἐπὶ σεμνότητι καὶ σωφροσύνῃ θείοις τε καὶ φιλόσοφοι δόγμασιν ἡ καθʼ ἡμᾶς διδασκαλία, ὡς μηδένα τῶν εἰς νῦν αἰσχρὰν ἐπιφέρειν τολμᾶν κατὰ τῆς πίστεως ἡμῶν δυσφημίαν, μηδέ τινα τοιαύτην διαβολὴν, οἵαις πάλαι πρότερον φίλον ἦν χρῆσθαι τοῖς καθ ἡμῶν ἐπισυνισταμένοις.

English · Claude translation

So with time the slander against the whole doctrine was extinguished too, and our teaching alone remained prevailing and acknowledged to excel above all in reverence and sobriety and in divine and philosophical doctrines, so that no one now dares to bring shameful calumny against our faith, nor any such slander as those who conspired against us formerly liked to use.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:144 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/14/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.7.14 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/7/14/).