Church History 8.4.5

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

Summary: When the persecution became open, the martyrs were beyond counting.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:354

ὡς δὲ καὶ γυμνότερον ἐπαπεδύετο οὐδʼ ἔστι λόγῳ δυνατὸν ἀφηγήσασθαι, ὅσους καὶ ὁποίους τοῦ θεοῦ μάρτυρας ὀφθαλμοῖς παρῆν ὁρᾶν τοῖς ἀνὰ πάσας τάς τε πόλεις καὶ τὰς χώρας οἰκοῦσιν.

English · Claude translation

But when he stripped more openly for the attack, it is impossible to describe in words how many and what kind of martyrs of God those who lived throughout all the cities and countries could see with their own eyes.

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Source: Dindorf 4:354 · 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: Persecution, Martyrdom

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/4/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/4/5/).

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