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Church History 5.1.36

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

Summary: The martyrs' various deaths were like a crown of many flowers offered to the Father.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:191–192

τούτοις μεταξύ τινα ἐπειπόντες αὖθις ἐπιφέρουσι· “μετὰ ταῦτα “λοιπὸν εἰς πᾶν εἶδος διῃρεῖτο τὰ μαρτύρια τῆς ἐξό- “δου αὐτῶν. ἐκ διαφόρων γὰρ χρωμάτων καὶ παν- “τοίων ἀνθῶν ἔνα πλέξαντες στέφανον προσήνεγκαν “τῷ πατρί. ἐχρῆν γοῦν τοὺς γενναίους ἀθλητὰς, “ποικίλον ὑπομείναντας ἀγῶνα καὶ μεγάλως νική- “σαντας, ἀπολαβεῖν τὸν μέγαν τῆς ἀφθαρσίας στέ- “φανον.

English · Claude translation

After saying some other things in between, they continue: “After this, then, the martyrdoms of their departure were divided into every form. For weaving one crown from different colours and flowers of every kind, they presented it to the Father. It was fitting indeed that the noble athletes, having endured a varied contest and conquered gloriously, should receive the great crown of incorruption.

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Source
Dindorf 4:191–192 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons; cf. 1 Cor 9:25.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.36 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/36/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.36 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/36/).

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