Church History 6.2.10

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

Summary: His father outwardly rebuked him but privately thanked God for such a son.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:242

ἐκεῖνος δὲ τῷ μὲν δοκεῖν εἰς πρόσωποι ἐπέπληττεν αὐτῷ, μηδὲν ὑπὲρ ἡλικίαν μηδὲ τῆς πρὸ φανοὺς διανοίας περαιτέρω τι ζητεῖν παραινῶν, ἰδίως δὲ παρʼ ἑαυτῷ τὰ μεγάλα γεγηθὼς τὴν μεγίστη ὡμολόγει τῷ πάντων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίῳ θεῷ χάριν, ὅτι δὴ αὐτὸν τοιούτου πατέρα γενέσθαι παιδὸς ἠξίωσεν.

English · Claude translation

His father rebuked him to his face, as it seemed, advising him to seek nothing beyond his age or further than the evident meaning; but privately he rejoiced greatly and gave the deepest thanks to God, the author of all good, for having deemed him worthy to be father of such a boy.

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Source: Dindorf 4:242 · 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)

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/10/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/10/).

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