Church History 5.2.8

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

Summary: Eusebius cites this example of mercy to the lapsed as a rebuke to the harshness of later rigorists.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:200

ταῦτα καὶ περὶ τῆς τῶν μακαρίων ἐκείνων πρὸς τοὺς παραπεπτωκότας τῶν ἀδελφῶν στοργῆς ὠφελίμως προσκείσθω, τῆς ἀπανθρώπου καὶ ἀνηλεοῦς ἕνεκα διαθέσεως τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα ἀφειδῶς τοῖς Χριστοῦ μέλεσι προσενηνεγμένων.

English · Claude translation

Let this too be usefully added about the affection of those blessed ones toward the brothers who had fallen away, because of the inhuman and merciless disposition of those who afterwards behaved unsparingly toward the members of Christ.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:200 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

Eusebius is probably thinking of the Novatianists (see 6.43).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/2/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.2.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/2/8/).

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