Church History 5.1.25

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

Summary: Biblis, who had denied Christ, was tortured to make her slander the Christians.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:189

καὶ “Βιβλιάδα δέ τινα, μίαν τῶν ἠρνημένων, ἤδη δοκῶν “ὁ διάβολος καταπεπωκέναι, θελήσας δὲ καὶ διὰ “βλασφημίας κατακρῖναι, ἦγεν ἐπὶ κόλασιν, ἀναγκά- “ζων εἰπεῖν τὰ ἄθεα περὶ ἡμῶν, ὡς εὔθραυστον ἤδη “καὶ ἄνανδρον.

English · Claude translation

And the devil, thinking he had already swallowed up a certain Biblis, one of those who had denied, and wishing to condemn her also through blasphemy, brought her to punishment, trying to compel her to say godless things about us, as one already easily broken and cowardly.

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Source

Dindorf 4:189 · 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

1 Pet 5:8 · echo, low confidence

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons; “swallowed up” echoes 1 Pet 5:8.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/25/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/25/).

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