Church History 7.11.18

Summary: Dionysius lists his many sufferings, mocking Germanus's boasts of confession.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:309–310

καὶ μεθʼ ἕτερα περὶ τῶν συμβεβηκότων αὐτῷ αὖθις ταῦτα γράφει ‟πολλαῖς γε ταῖς ὁμολογίαις “Γερμανὸς σεμνύνεται. πολλά γε εἰπεῖν ἔχει καθʼ “ἑαυτοῦ γενόμενα. ὅσας ἀριθμῆσαι δύναται περὶ “ἡμῶν ἀποφάσεις, δημεύσεις, προγραφὰς, ὑπαρχόν- “των ἁρπαγὰς, ἀξιωμάτων ἀποθέσεις, δόξης κοσμι- “κῆς ὀλιγωρίας, ἐπαίνων ἡγεμονικῶν καὶ βουλευτι- “κῶν καταφρονήσεις, καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων ἀπειλῶν καὶ “καταβοήσεων καὶ κινδύνων καὶ διωγμῶν καὶ πλάνης καὶ στενοχωρίας καὶ ποικίλης θλίψεως ὑπομονὴν, ‟οἷα τὰ ἐπὶ Δεκίου καὶ Σαβίνου συμβάντα μοι, οἷα ‟μέχρι νῦν Αἰμιλιανοῦ.

English · Claude translation

And after other things he writes again about what happened to him: “Germanus prides himself on many confessions; he has many things to tell that happened to him! As many as I can count about ourselves: sentences, confiscations, proscriptions, seizures of property, loss of dignities, contempt of worldly glory, disdain of the praises of governors and councils, and endurance of the contrary — threats, outcries, dangers, persecutions, wandering, distress, and affliction of every kind — such as happened to me under Decius and Sabinus, and up to now under Aemilianus.

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Source

Dindorf 4:309–310 · 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

2 Cor 11:26 · echo, low confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/18/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/18/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:309–310

English · Claude translation

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