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Church History 7.21.6

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

Summary: At other times it flooded like Noah's deluge, and it ran with blood like the Nile under Moses.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:318

ποτὲ “δὲ τοσοῦτον ἐπλήμμυρεν ὡς πᾶσαν τὴν περίχωρον “τάς τε ὁδοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἀγροὺς ἐπικλύσαντα, τῆς ἐπὶ “Νῶς γενομένης τοῦ ὕδατος φορᾶς ἐπαγαγεῖν ἀπει- “λήν· ἀεὶ δὲ αἵματι καὶ φόνοις καὶ καταποντισμοῖς “κάτεισι μεμιασμένος, οἷος ὑπὸ Μωυσεῖ γέγονε τῷ “Φαραὼ, μεταβαλὼν εἰς αἷμα καὶ ἐποζέσας.

English · Claude translation

at another time it overflowed so much that it flooded all the country round, both roads and fields, threatening a return of the deluge of water that happened in Noah's time. And it always flows down defiled with blood and murders and drownings, as it became for Pharaoh under Moses, changed into blood and stinking.

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Source
Dindorf 4:318 · 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
Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, alluding to Gen 7 and Exod 7:20–21.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/6/).

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