Church History 5.21.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The devil had Apollonius, a learned Roman Christian, accused before a court.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:228

οὐκ ἦν δὲ ἄρα τοῦτο τῷ μισοκάλῳ δαίμονι βασκάνῳ ὄντι τὴν φύσιν οἰστόν· ἀπεδύετο δʼ οὖν αὖθις, ποικίλας τὰς καθʼ ἡμῶν μηχανὰς ἐπιτεχνώμενος. ἐπὶ γοῦν τῆς Ῥωμαίων πόλεως Ἀπολλώνιον, ἄνδρα τῶν τότε πιστῶν ἐπὶ παιδείᾳ καὶ φιλοσοφίᾳ βεβοημένον, ἐπὶ δικαστήριον ἄγει, ἴνα γέ τινʼ τῶν εἰς ταῦτα ἐπιτηδείων αὐτῷ διακόνων ἐπὶ κατηγορίᾳ τἀνδρὸς ἐγείρας.

English · Claude translation

But this was intolerable to the demon who hates good, being envious by nature; so he stripped for the fight again, devising various machinations against us. At Rome he brought to court Apollonius, a man renowned among the faithful of that time for learning and philosophy, stirring up one of his servants who was fit for such things to accuse the man.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:228 · 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

Persecution

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/21/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.21.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/21/2/).