Church History 6.44.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:295

ἔδραμεν ὁ παῖς ἐπὶ τὸν πρεσβύτερον· νὺξ δὲ ἦν, κἀκεῖνος ἠσθένει. ἀφικέσθαι μὲν οὖν οὐκ ἐδυνήθη, ἐντολῆς δὲ ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ δεδομένης, τοὺς ἀπαλλαττομένους τοῦ βίου, εἰ δέοιντο, καὶ μάλιστα εἰ καὶ πρότερον ἱκετεύσαντες τύχοιεν, ἀφίεσθαι, ἵνʼ εὐέλπιδες ἀπαλλάττωνται, βραχὺ τῆς εὐχαριστίας ἔδωκεν τῷ παιδαρίῳ, ἀποβρέξαι κελεύσας καὶ τῷ πρεσβύτῃ κατὰ τοῦ στόματος ἐπιστάξαι.

English · Claude translation

The boy ran to the presbyter. It was night, and he was sick. He could not come; but since an order had been given by me that those departing this life, if they asked, and especially if they had formerly entreated, should be absolved, so that they might depart with good hope, he gave the boy a little of the eucharist, telling him to soak it and let it drop into the old man's mouth.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:295 · 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

Eucharist, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. The digital text repeats βρέξαι.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated syllables in the digital text): ἀποβρέξαι βρέξαι → ἀποβρέξαι.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/4/).