Sophia Scriptura

Church History 8.14.18

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

Summary: Eusebius traces the evils of the two tyrants to the persecution, which ended only when the Christians regained their freedom.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:376–377

τοσαύτη δῆτα κακίας φορὰ ὑφʼ ἔνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν συνηνέχθη καιρὸν, πρὸς τῶν δύο τυράννων ἀνατολὴν καὶ δύσιν διειληφότων κατεργασθεῖσα. τίς δʼ ἂν τὴν τῶν τοσούτων διερευνώμενος αἰτίαν διστάξαι μὴ οὐχὶ τὸν καθʼ ἡμῶν διωγμὸν ἀποφήνασθαι; ὅτε γε ἁλιστὰ οὐ πρότερον τὰ τῆς τοσῆσδε πέπαυτο συγχύσεως ἢ Χριστιανοὺς τὰ τῆς παρρησίας ἀπολαβεῖν.

English · Claude translation

Such a flood of wickedness, then, came together at one and the same time, wrought by the two tyrants who had divided East and West between them. Who, searching for the cause of such things, would hesitate to declare it to be the persecution against us? For indeed this great confusion did not cease until the Christians had recovered their freedom.

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Source
Dindorf 4:376–377 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • ἁλιστὰ in the digital text is probably a corruption (perhaps of μάλιστα); translated “indeed”.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.14.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/14/18/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.14.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/14/18/).

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