Church History 5.2.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:199

καὶ “αὖθίς φασι μεθʼ ἕτερα οὗτος γὰρ καὶ μέγιστος αὐτοῖς “πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ πόλεμος ἐγένετο, διὰ τὸ γνήσιον “τῆς ἀγάπης, ἵνα ἀποπνιχθεὶς ὁ θὴρ, οὓς πρότερον “ᾤετο καταπεπωκέναι, ζῶντας ἐξεμέσῃ. οὐ γὰρ ἔλαβον “καύχημα κατὰ τῶν πεπτωκότων, ἀλλʼ ἐν οἷς “ἐπλεόναζον αὐτοὶ, τοῦτο τοῖς ἐνδεεστέροις ἐπήρκουν, “μητρικὰ σπλάγχνα ἔχοντες, καὶ πολλὰ περὶ αὐτῶν “ἐκχέοντες δάκρυα πρὸς τὸν πατέρα.

English · Claude translation

And again, after other things, they say: “For this was their greatest war against him, because of the genuineness of their love: that the beast, being choked, might vomit up alive those he had thought he had already swallowed. For they did not boast over the fallen, but supplied to the more needy that in which they themselves abounded, having a mother's compassion, and shedding many tears for them to the Father.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:199 · 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 letters in the digital text): έγἐνειο → ἐγένετο.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/2/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.2.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/2/6/).