Church History 5.1.16

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

Summary: The martyrs endured indescribable tortures as Satan tried to make them blaspheme.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:186

ἐνταῦθα “λοιπὸν ὑπεράνω πάσης ἐξηγήσεως ὑπέμενον “σεῖς οἱ ἅγιοι μάρτυρες, φιλοτιμουμένου τοῦ σατανᾶ “καὶ διʼ ἐκείνων ῥηθῆναί τι τῶν βλασφήμων.

English · Claude translation

Thereafter the holy martyrs endured tortures beyond all description, Satan striving eagerly that something blasphemous might be said by them too.

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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

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons. The digital text reads a meaningless “σεῖς” before οἱ ἅγιοι; “tortures” (probably αἰκίας) is supplied from the sense.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/16/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/16/).

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