Church History 9.11.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: With Maximin gone, the churches were rebuilt and the gospel enjoyed greater freedom than ever.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:444

Οὕτω δῆτα Μαξιμίνου ἐκποδὼν γενομένου, ὃς μόνος ἔτι λείπων τῶν τῆς θεοσεβείας ἐχθρῶν, ἁπάντων χείριστος ἀναπέφηνε, τὰ μὲν τῆς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἀνανεώσεως ἐκ θεμελίων χάριτι θεοῦ τοῦ παντοκράτορος ἠγείρετο, ὅ τε Χριστοῦ λόγος εἰς δόξαν τοῦ τῶν ὅλων θεοῦ διαλάμπων, μείζονα τῆς πρόσθεν ἀπελάμβανε παρρησίαν, τὰ δετῆς δυσσεβείας τῶν τῆς θεοσεβείας ἐχθρῶν αἰσχύνης ἐσχάτης καὶ ἀτιμίας ἐνεπίμπλατο.

English · Claude translation

So when Maximin, who alone was still left of the enemies of godliness and proved the worst of all, had been removed, the renewal of the churches from their foundations was raised up by the grace of God the Almighty, and the word of Christ, shining forth to the glory of the God of the universe, received greater freedom than before, while the impiety of the enemies of godliness was filled with the utmost shame and dishonor.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:444 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/1/).