Church History 6.3.13 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: His example drew educated pagans, some of whom became martyrs.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:246

τοιαῦτα δὴ φιλοσόφου βίου τοῖς θεωμένοις παρέχων ὑποδείγματα εἰκότως ἐπὶ τὸν ὅμοιον αὐτῷ ζῆλον πλείους παρώρμα τῶν φοιτητῶν, ὥστε ἤδη καὶ τῶν ἀπίστων ἐθνῶν, τῶν τε ἀπὸ παιδείας καὶ φιλοσοφίας οὐ τοὺς τυχόντας ὑπάγεσθαι τῇ διʼ αὐτοῦ διδασκαλίᾳ· οἷς καὶ αὐτοῖς γνησίως ἐν βάθει ψυχῆς τὴν εἰς τὸν θεῖον λόγον πίστιν διʼ αὐτοῦ παραδεχομένοις διαπρέπειν συνέβαινε κατὰ τὸν τότε τοῦ διωγμοῦ καιρὸν, ὡς καί τινας αὐτόν ἁλόντας μαρτυρίῳ τελειωθῆναι.

English · Claude translation

By giving such examples of the philosophic life to those who saw him, he naturally stirred many of his pupils to a zeal like his, so that even of the unbelieving Gentiles, and of those from learning and philosophy, men of no ordinary sort came under his teaching. And it happened that these too, receiving through him genuinely, in the depth of the soul, faith in the divine Word, were distinguished in the persecution of that time, so that some of them were arrested and perfected by martyrdom.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:246 · 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

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/13/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/13/).