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Church History 5.1.15

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

Summary: The slanders turned everyone against the Christians, fulfilling Christ's prediction in John 16:2.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:186

τούτων δὲ “φημισθέντων πάντες ἀπεθηριώθησαν εἰς ἡμᾶς, ὥστε “καὶ εἴ τινες τὸ πρότερον διʼ οἰκειότητα ἐμετρίαζον, “τότε μεγάλως ἐχαλέπαινον καὶ διεπρίοντο καθʼ ἡμῶν. “ἐπληροῦτο δὲ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν εἰρημένον, ὅτι ἐλεύσεται καιρὸς ἐν ᾧ πᾶς ὁ ἀποκτείνας ὑμᾶς “δόξει λατρείαν προσφέρειν τῷ θεῷ.

English · Claude translation

When these things were spread abroad, all became like wild beasts toward us, so that even those who had formerly been moderate because of family ties were then greatly incensed and gnashed their teeth against us. And what was said by our Lord was fulfilled, that “the time will come when whoever kills you will think he is offering worship to God.”

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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)
Scripture
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, citing John 16:2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/15/).

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