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Church History 5.1.23

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

Summary: Christ suffered in the mangled Sanctus, showing that where God's love is nothing is to be feared.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:188

τὸ δὲ “σωμάτιον μάρτυς ἦν τῶν συμβεβηκότων, ὅλον τραῦμα “καὶ μώλωψ καὶ συνεσπασμένον καὶ ἀποβεβληκὸς τὴν “ἀνθρώπειον ἔξωθεν μορφὴν, ἐν ᾧ πάσχων Χριστὸς “μεγάλας ἐπετέλει δόξας, καταργῶν τὸν ἀντικείμε- “νον, καὶ εἰς τὴν τῶν λοιπῶν ὑποτύπωσιν ὑποδει- “κνύων ὅτι μηδὲν φοβερὸν ὅπου πατρὸς ἀγάπη, μηδὲ “ἀλγεινὸν ὅπου Χριστοῦ δόξα.

English · Claude translation

His poor body was a witness of what had happened: all one wound and bruise, contracted, and having lost outwardly its human shape. Christ, suffering in him, accomplished great glories, bringing the adversary to nothing and showing for the example of the rest that nothing is fearful where the Father's love is, nothing painful where Christ's glory is.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:188 · 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
Martyrdom, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons; cf. 1 John 4:18.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/23/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/23/).

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