Church History 6.40.3

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

Summary: On the fourth day God led Dionysius and his companions out safely.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:281

καὶ μόλις μετὰ τὴν τετάρτην ἡμέραν κελεύσαντός μοι μεταστῆναι “τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ παραδόξως ὁδοποιήσαντος ἐγώ τε “οἱ παῖδες καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἅμα “θομεν. καὶ ὅτι τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ προνοίας ἔργον ἐκεῖνο “γέγονε τὰ ἐξῆς ἐδήλωσεν, ἐν οἷς τάχα τισὶ γεγόναμεν χρήσιμοι.”

English · Claude translation

And barely, after the fourth day, when God commanded me to depart and wonderfully made a way, I and the servants and many of the brothers went out together. That this was the work of God's providence what followed showed, in which we were perhaps of use to some.”

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Source

Dindorf 4:281 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. Words at line beginnings (“and”, “went out”) are lost in the digital text.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/3/).

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