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Church History 7.10.8

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

Summary: Macrianus, crippled, made his two sons emperors, and they inherited his sins.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:305

οὗτος δὲ τῇ βασιλείᾳ παρὰ τὴν ἀξίαν ἐπιμανεὶς, καὶ τὸν βασίλειον ὑποδῦναι κόσμον ἀδυνατῶν ἀναπήρῳ τῷ σώματι, τοὺς δύο παῖδας τὰς πατρῴας ἀναδεξαμένους ἁμαρτίας προεστήσατο. ἐναργὴς γὰρ ἐπὶ τούτων ἡ πρόρρησις ἣν εἶπεν ὁ θεός ‘ἀποδιδοὺς ἁμαρτίας πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκνα ἕως τρίτης καὶ τετάρτης γενεᾶς τοῖς μισοῦσί με.᾿

English · Claude translation

But this man, madly desiring the empire beyond his deserts, and unable to put on the imperial robe because of his crippled body, put forward his two sons, who took on their father's sins. For clearly fulfilled in them was the prophecy which God spoke: ‘visiting the sins of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:305 · 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.
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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

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  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, citing Exod 20:5.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/8/).

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