Church History 8.13.6

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

Summary: Eusebius remembers his teacher Pamphilus, presbyter of Caesarea, whose deeds he recorded elsewhere.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:369

καὶ τὸ μέγα δὲ κλέος τῆς Καισαρέων παροικίας ἐν τούτοις ἡμῖν μνημονευέσθω Πάμφιλος πρεσβύτερος, τῶν καθʼ ἡμᾶς θαυμασιώτατος, οὗ τῶν ἀνδραγαθημάτων τὴν ἀρετὴν κατὰ τὸν δέοντα καιρὸν ἀνεγράψαμεν.

English · Claude translation

And among these let us also remember the great glory of the church of Caesarea, Pamphilus the presbyter, the most wonderful man of our time, the excellence of whose brave deeds we have recorded at the proper place.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:369 · 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, Church office

Notes

Translation notes

Eusebius wrote a Life of Pamphilus (lost) and describes his martyrdom in the Martyrs of Palestine 11.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.13.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/13/6/).

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