Church History 5.1.42 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:193

καὶ μηδενὸς ἁψαμένου τότε τῶν θηρίων “αὐτῆς, καθαιρεθεῖσα ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου ἀνελήφθη πάλιν εἰς τὴν εἱρκτὴν, εἰς ἄλλον ἀγῶνα τηρουμένη, “ἔνα διὰ πλειόνων γυμνασμάτων νικήσασα τῷ μὲν ‘σκολιῷ ὄφει ἀπαραίτητον ποιήσῃ τὴν καταδίκην, “προτρέψηται δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἡ μικρὰ καὶ ἀσθενὴς “καὶ εὐκαταφρόνητος, μέγαν καὶ “ἀθλητὴν Χριστὸν ἐνδεδυμένη, διὰ πολλῶν κλήρων ἐκβιάσασα τὸν ἀντικείμενον, καὶ διʼ ἀγῶνος τὸν τῆς “ἀφθαρσίας στεψαμένη στέφανον.

English · Claude translation

And since none of the beasts touched her then, she was taken down from the stake and brought back to prison, kept for another contest, so that, conquering in more exercises, she might make the condemnation of the crooked serpent irrevocable and encourage the brothers — she, small and weak and despised, who had put on Christ, the great and invincible athlete, and had overcome the adversary in many bouts and through the contest had been crowned with the crown of incorruption.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:193 · 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

Isa 27:1 · allusion, high confidence
Gal 3:27 · echo, medium confidence

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 crooked serpent” is from Isa 27:1; “put on Christ” echoes Gal 3:27. A word before ἀθλητὴν (probably ἀκαταγώνιστον, “invincible”) is lost in the digital text.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.42 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/42/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.42 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/42/).