Church History 6.3.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:244

ἡ δʼ αὐτὴ θεία καὶ οὐράνιος χάρις ἄλλοτε πάλιν καὶ πάλιν, καὶ οὐδʼ ἔστιν ὁσάκις εἰπεῖν, τῆς ἄγαν περὶ τὸν Χριστοῦ λόγον προθυμίας τε καὶ παρρησίας ἕνεκεν τηνικαῦτα ἐπιβουλευόμενον αὐτὸν διεφύλαττε. τοσοῦτος δʼ ἦν ἄρα τῶν ἀπίστων ὁ πρὸς αὐτὸν πόλεμος, ὡς καὶ συστροφὰς ποιησαμένους, στρατιώτας αὐτῷ περὶ τὸν οἶκον, ἔνθα κατέμενεν, ἐπιστῆσαι, διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν τὰ τῆς ἱερᾶς πίστεως κατηχουμένων παρʼ αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

The same divine and heavenly grace preserved him again and again, more often than can be told, when he was plotted against at that time for his great zeal and boldness for the word of Christ. So great was the unbelievers' war against him that they formed gangs and set soldiers round the house where he lived, because of the number of those being instructed by him in the holy faith.

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Source

Dindorf 4:244 · 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

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): τὰ τῆς ἱερὰς → τὰ τῆς ἱερᾶς.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/3/5/).