Church History 5.1.13

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

Summary: Daily arrests brought in the leading members of both churches.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:186

συνελαμβάνοντο μέντοι καθʼ ἑκάστην “ἡμέραν οἱ ἄξιοι, τὸν ἐκείνων ἀναπληροῦντες ἀρι- “θμὸν, ὥστε συλλεγῆναι ἐκ τῶν δύο ἐκκλησιῶν πάν- “τας τοὺς σπουδαίους, καὶ διʼ ὧν μάλιστα συνειστή- “κει τὰ ἐνθάδε.

English · Claude translation

Yet every day the worthy were arrested, filling up their number, so that all the zealous members of the two churches were gathered in, those through whom above all things here had been established.

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Source

Dindorf 4:186 · 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

Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/13/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/13/).

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