Church History 9.1.4

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

Summary: Some, the letter says, would neither be persuaded nor frightened from their purpose.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:382–420

ἀλλʼ ἡ τινῶν ἔνστασις καὶ τραχυτάτη βουλὴ εἰς τοσοῦτον περιέστη ὡς μήτε λογισμῷ δικαίῳ τῆς κελεύσεως δύνα- ‟σθαι ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας προθέσεως ἀναχωρεῖν, μήτε τὴν ‟ἐπικειμένην τιμωρίαν αὐτοὺς ἐκφοβεῖν.

English · Claude translation

But the obstinacy and most stubborn resolve of some went so far that they could neither be drawn back from their own purpose by the just reasoning of the command nor be frightened by the punishment that threatened them.

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Source: Dindorf 4:382–420 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/4/).

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