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Church History 7.11.4

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

Summary: Aemilianus demanded that Dionysius himself cease being a Christian, hoping others would follow.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:306

Αἰμιλιανὸς δὲ οὐκ εἶπέ μοι προηγουμένως ῾μὴ “σύναγε.᾿ περιττὸν γὰρ ἦν αὐτῷ τοῦτο καὶ τὸ “τελευταῖον ἐπὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἀνατρέχοντι. οὐ γὰρ “περὶ τοῦ μὴ συνάγειν ἑτέρους ὁ λόγος ἦν αὐτῷ, “ἀλλὰ περὶ τοῦ μηδʼ αὐτοὺς ἡμᾶς εἶναι Χριστιανοὺς, “καὶ τούτου προσέταττε πεπαῦσθαι, εἰ μεταβαλοίμην “ἔγωγε, καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἕψεσθαί μοι νομίζων. “

English · Claude translation

Aemilianus did not say to me at the outset, ‘Do not hold assemblies.’ That was superfluous for him, and the last thing for one going back to the first. For his concern was not that we should not assemble others, but that we ourselves should not be Christians; and he ordered me to stop being one, thinking that if I changed, the others would follow me.

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Source
Dindorf 4:306 · 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

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/4/).

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