Church History 5.2.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Eusebius adds further extracts from the letter on the martyrs' gentleness.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:198

Τοιαῦτα καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν δεδηλωμένον αὐτοκράτορα ταῖς Χριστοῦ συμβέβηκεν ἐκκλησίαις, ἀφʼ ὧν καὶ τὰ ἐν ταῖς λοιπαῖς ἐπαρχίαις ἐνηργημένα εἰκότι λογισμῷ στοχάζεσθαι πάρεστιν. ἄξιον τούτοις ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ἐπισυνάψαι γραφῆς λέξεις ἑτέρας, διʼ ὧν καὶ τὸ ἐπιεικὲς καὶ φιλάνθρωπον τῶν δεδηλωμένων μαρτύρων ἀναγέγραπται τούτοις αὐτοῖς τοῖςρήμασιν

English · Claude translation

Such were the things that happened to the churches of Christ under the emperor mentioned, from which one may reasonably infer what was done in the other provinces. It is worth adding other passages from the same document, in which the gentleness and kindness of the martyrs described are recorded in these very words:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:198 · 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)

Topics

Martyrdom

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/2/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/2/1/).