Church History 6.42.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:287

“ Ἄλλοι δὲ πλεῖστοι “κατὰ πόλεις καὶ κώμας ὑπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν διεσπάσθη- “σαν, ὧν ἑνὸς παραδείγματος ἕνεκεν “μαι. Ἰσχυρίων ἐπετρόπευέ τινι τῶν ἀρχόντων μισθῷ. τοῦτον ὁ μισθοδότης ἐκέλευσε θῦσαι, μὴ πειθόμενον ὕβριζεν, ἐμμένοντα προεπηλάκιζεν· ὑφι- “σταμένου, βακτηρίαν μεγίστην λαβὼν, διὰ τῶν ἐν- ‘τέρων καὶ τῶν σπλάγχνων διώσας ἀπέκτεινε.

English · Claude translation

“Very many others were torn apart by the pagans in cities and villages, of whom I shall mention one as an example. Ischyrion was employed as steward for one of the magistrates. His employer ordered him to sacrifice; when he would not obey, he insulted him; when he persisted, he abused him; and when he held out, he took a very large stake, drove it through his bowels and entrails, and killed him.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:287 · 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

Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. The digital text reads κόλεις for πόλεις; a verb (“I shall mention”) is partly lost.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): κόλεις → πόλεις.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/1/).