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Church History 6.2.4

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

Summary: Only his mother, by God's providence, kept him from martyrdom.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:240–241

ἤδη γέ τοι μικρὸν ὅσον αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ βίου ἀπαλλαγῆς οὐ πόρρω καθίστατο, μὴ οὐχὶ τῆς θείας καὶ οὐρανίου προνοίας εἰς τὴν πλείστων ὠφέλειαν διὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ μητρὸς ἐμποδὼν αὐτῷ τῆς προθυμίας ἐνστάσης.

English · Claude translation

Indeed, the end of his life was only a little way off, had not the divine and heavenly providence, for the benefit of very many, hindered his eagerness through his mother.

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Source
Dindorf 4:240–241 · 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. 6.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/2/4/).

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