Church History 5.1.29 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:190

ὁ δὲ μακάριος Ποθεινὸς, ὁ τὴν διακο- ‘νίαν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἐν Λουγδούνῳ πεπιστευμένος, “ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη τῆς ἡλικίας γεγονὼς, καὶ “πάνυ ἀσθενὴς τῷ σώματι, μόλις μὲν ἐμπνέων διὰ τὴν προκειμένην σωματικὴν ἀσθένειαν, ὑπὸ δὲ προθυμίας πνεύματος ἀναρρωννύμενος διὰ τὴν ἐγκειμένην τῆς μαρτυρίας ἐπιθυμίαν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τὸ “βῆμα ἐσύρετο, τοῦ μὲν σώματος καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ γήρως καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς νόσου λελυμένου, τηρουμένης δὲ τῆς “ψυχῆς ἐν αὐτῷ, ἵνα διʼ αὐτῆς Χριστὸς θριαμβεύσῃ.

English · Claude translation

The blessed Pothinus, who had been entrusted with the ministry of the episcopate in Lyons, being over ninety years of age and very weak in body, scarcely breathing because of the bodily weakness that lay upon him, yet strengthened by eagerness of spirit through his pressing desire for martyrdom, was himself also dragged to the tribunal. His body was worn out by old age and disease, but his soul was preserved in him, so that through it Christ might triumph.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:190 · 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, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons. The digital text repeats ὑπὲρ (“over over”).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word in the digital text): ὑπὲρ ὑπὲρ → ὑπὲρ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/29/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/29/).