Church History 7.11.16

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

Summary: He resented the new place, said to lack Christians and to be troubled by travellers and robbers.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:309

τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἠχθέσθην καὶ λίαν ἐχαλέπηνα· ‟καὶ γὰρ εἰ γνωριμώτεροι καὶ συνηθέστεροι ἐτύγχα- “νον ἡμῖν οἱ τόποι, ἀλλʼ ἔρημον μὲν ἀδελφῶν καὶ ‟σπουδαίων ἀνθρώπων ἔφασκον εἶναι τὸ χωρίον, ‟ταῖς δὲ τῶν ὁδοιπορούντων ἐνοχλήσεσι καὶ λῃστῶν “καταδρομαῖς ἐγκείμενον.

English · Claude translation

At first I was vexed and very angry; for even if the places were better known and more familiar to us, people said that the district was empty of brothers and earnest people, and exposed to the annoyances of travellers and the raids of robbers.

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Source

Dindorf 4:309 · 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. 7.11.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/16/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/16/).

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