Church History 7.11.23

Summary: Dionysius, Gaius, and Peter are now confined in the Libyan desert.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:310–311

ἐγὼ δὲ νῦν καὶ Γάϊος ‟καὶ Πέτρος, μόνοι τῶν ἄλλων ἀδελφῶν ἀπορφανι- ‟σθέντες, ἐν ἐρήμῳ καὶ αὐχμηρῷ τῆς Λιβύης τόπῳ κατακεκλείσμεθα, τριῶν ἡμερῶν ὁδὸν τοῦ Παραι- “τονίου διεστηκότες.’’

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Dindorf 4:310–311 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/23/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/23/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:310–311

English · Claude translation

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