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Church History 5.1.45

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

Summary: Meanwhile the confessors restored those who had denied, and the church, the virgin mother, rejoiced to receive them back alive.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:193

ὁ δὲ διὰ μέσου καιρὸς οὐκ ἀργὸς αὐτοῖς οὐδὲ ἄκαρπος ἐγίνετο, ἀλλὰ διὰ τῆς ὑπομονῆς αὐτῶν τὸ ἀμέτρητον ἔλεος ἀνεφαίνετο Χριστοῦ. διὰ γὰρ τῶν ζώντων ἐζωοποιοῦντο τὰ νεκρὰ, καὶ μάρτυρες τοῖς μὴ μάρτυσιν ἐχαρίζοντο, καὶ ἐνεγίνετο πολλὴ χαρὰ τῇ παρθένῳ μητρὶ, οὓς ὡς νεκροὺς ἐξέτρωσε, τούτους ζῶντας τὰς ἀπολαμβανούσῃ.

English · Claude translation

The intervening time was not idle or fruitless for them, but through their endurance the immeasurable mercy of Christ was revealed. For through the living the dead were made alive, and martyrs showed grace to those who were not martyrs, and there was great joy for the virgin mother in receiving back alive those whom she had miscarried as dead.

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)
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 “virgin mother” is the church.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.45 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/45/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.45 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/45/).

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