Church History 8.12.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The martyrs' courage amazed onlookers everywhere and showed the divine power of Christ; to name them all is impossible.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:368

ἐν δὴ τούτοις ἐφʼ ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης διαλάμψαντες οἱ μεγαλοπρεπεῖς τοῦ Χριστοῦ μάρτυρες τοὺς μὲν ἁπανταχοῦ τῆς ἀνδρείας αὐτῶν ἐπόπτας εἰκότως κατεπλήξαντο, τῆς δὲ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν θείας ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ἀπορρήτου δυνάμεως ἐμφανῆ διʼ ἑαυτῶν τὰ τεκμήρια παρεστήσαντο. ἑκάστου μὲν οὖν ἐπʼ ὀνόματος μνημονεύειν μακρὸν ἂν εἴη, μή τί γε τῶν ἀδυνάτων,

English · Claude translation

In these, then, the magnificent martyrs of Christ, shining throughout the whole world, naturally astonished those everywhere who witnessed their courage, and through themselves presented manifest proofs of the truly divine and ineffable power of our Savior. To mention each by name would be a long task, not to say an impossible one,

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:368 · 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

Martyrdom

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.12.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/12/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.12.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/12/11/).