Church History 7.32.22 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:345

καὶ τοῦ Ἀνατολίου δὲ τὸν βίον μεταλλάξαντος τῆς ἐκεῖσε παροικίας ὕστατος τῶν πρὸ τοῦ διωγμοῦ καθίσταται Στέφανος, λόγων μὲν φιλοσόφων καὶ τῆς ἄλλης παρʼ Ἕλλησι παιδείας παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς θαυμασθεὶς, οὐχ ὁμοίως γε μὴν περὶ τὴν θείαν πίστιν διατεθειμένος, ὡς προϊὼν ὁ τοῦ διωγμοῦ καιρὸς ἀπήλεγξεν, εἴρωνα μᾶλλον δειλόν τε καὶ ἄνανδρον ἤπερ ἀληθῆ φιλόσοφον ἀποδείξας τὸν ἄνδρα.

English · Claude translation

When Anatolius departed this life, Stephen was appointed over the community there, the last of those before the persecution. He was admired by many for philosophical learning and the rest of Greek education, but was not similarly disposed toward the divine faith, as the time of the persecution, as it advanced, proved, showing the man to be a dissembler, cowardly and unmanly, rather than a true philosopher.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:345 · 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)

Topics

Church office, Persecution

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): θαυμασθεὲς → θαυμασθεὶς.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/22/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.32.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/32/22/).