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Church History 6.41.10

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

Summary: The edict arrived, terrible enough to make even the elect stumble.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:284

καὶ δὴ καὶ παρῆν “τὸ πρόσταγμα, αὐτοσχεδὸν ἐκεῖνο οἷον τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου ἀποφαῖνον τὸ φοβερώτατον, ὡς, εἰ δυνατὸν, σκανδαλίσαι καὶ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς. “

English · Claude translation

And indeed the edict came, very like what was foretold by our Lord, most terrible, so as, if possible, to cause even the elect to stumble.

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Source
Dindorf 4:284 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, alluding to Matt 24:24.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/10/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/10/).

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