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Church History 5.1.58

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

Summary: Defeat only enraged the persecutors, fulfilling Rev 22:11.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:196–197

τὸ γὰρ “νενικῆσθαι αὐτοὺς οὐκ ἐδυσώπει, διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν “ἀνθρώπινον ἐπιλογισμὸν, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἐξέκαιεν “αὐτῶν τὴν ὀργὴν καθάπερ θηρίου, καὶ τοῦ ἡγεμό- “νος καὶ τοῦ δήμου τὸ ὅμοιον εἰς ἡμᾶς ἄδικον ἐπι- “δεικνυμένων μῖσος, ἵνα ἡ γραφὴ πληρωθῇ ῾ὁ ἄνο- “μος ἀνομησάτω ἔτι, καὶ ὁ δίκαιος δικαιωθήτω ἔτι.᾿ “

English · Claude translation

Being defeated did not shame them, since they had no human reasoning; rather it inflamed their anger like that of a beast, the governor and the people showing the same unjust hatred toward us, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Let the lawless be lawless still, and let the righteous be made righteous still.”

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:196–197 · 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
Persecution, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons, citing Rev 22:11 in a form close to its text.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.58 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/58/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.58 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/58/).

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