Church History 6.40.5

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

Summary: A countryman met the fleeing Timothy and asked why he hurried.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:281

καὶ μεθʼ ἕτερά φησι “καὶ τίς ὁ τῆς θαυμασίας ‘οἰκονομίας αὐτοῦ τρόπος; τὰ γὰρ ἀληθῆ λεχθήσεται. ‘ἀπηντᾶτό τις τῶν χωρικῶν ὑποφεύγοντι τῷ Τιμο- ‘θέῳ καὶ τεταραγμένῳ, καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς ἐπείξεως ἐπύθετο.

English · Claude translation

And after other things he says: “And what was the manner of his wonderful dispensation? For the truth shall be told. One of the country people met Timothy as he fled in distress and asked the reason for his haste.

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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.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/5/).

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