Church History 6.2.3

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

Summary: The boy Origen was seized with a passion for martyrdom.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:240

εἰς μέγα δὴ οὖν τῆς τοῦ διωγμοῦ πυρκαϊᾶς ἁφθείσης, καὶ μυρίων ὅσων τοῖς κατὰ τὸ μαρτύριον ἀναδουμένων στεφάνοις, ἔρως τοσοῦτος μαρτυρίου τὴν Ὠριγένους ἔτι κομιδῆ παιδὸς ὑπάρχοντος κατεῖχε ψυχὴν, ὡς ὁμόσε τοῖς κινδύνοις χωρεῖν, προπηδᾶν τε καὶ ὁρμᾶν ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα προθύμως ἔχειν.

English · Claude translation

When the flame of persecution had been kindled greatly, and countless numbers were wreathed with the crowns of martyrdom, such a passion for martyrdom seized the soul of Origen, still quite a boy, that he went close to the dangers and was eager to leap forward and rush into the contest.

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Source: Dindorf 4:240 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/3/).

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