Church History 5.1.49 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:194–195

οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ πάντες τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ προσετέ- “θησαν, ὧν καὶ ἀνεταζομένων Ἀλέξανδρός τις, Φρὺξ “μὲν τὸ γένος, ἰατρὸς δὲ τὴν ἐπιστήμην, πολλοῖς “αἔτεσιν ἐν ταῖς Γαλλίαις διατρίψας, καὶ γνωστὸς “σχεδὸν πᾶσι διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἀγάπην καὶ “παρρησίαν τοῦ λόγου (ἦν γὰρ καὶ οὐκ ἄμοιρος ἀπο- “στολικοῦ χαρίσματος), παρεστὼς τῷ βήματι, καὶ “νεύματι προτρέπων αὐτοὺς πρὸς τὴν ὁμολογίαν, “φανερὸς ἦν τοῖς περιεστηκόσι τὸ βῆμα ὥσπερ ὠδί- νῶν.

English · Claude translation

All the rest were added to the church. While they were being examined, a certain Alexander, a Phrygian by birth and a physician by profession, who had lived in Gaul for many years and was known to almost everyone for his love toward God and boldness of speech (for he was not without a share of apostolic grace), stood by the tribunal and, encouraging them by nods to confess, was plain to those standing round the tribunal as one in the pangs of birth.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:194–195 · 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.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text; misread letters in the digital text): ἀνεταομἐνων → ἀνεταζομένων; ἐπιοτήμην → ἐπιστήμην.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.49 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/49/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.49 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/49/).