Church History 9.4.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Maximin approved the petitions, renewed persecution, and appointed prominent men as pagan priests and high priests.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:423

ὧν δὴ καὶ αὐτῶν τοῖς ψηφίσμασι διʼ ἀντιγραφῆς ἀσμενέστατα ἐπινεύσαντος τοῦ τυράννου, αὖθις ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς ὁ καθʼ ἡμῶν ἀνεφλέγετο διωγμός. ἱερεῖς δῆτα κατὰ πόλιν τῶν ξοάνων, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἀρχιερεῖς πρὸς αὐτοῦ Μαξιμίνου οἱ μάλιστα ταῖς πολιτείαις διαπρέψαντες καὶ διὰ πασῶν ἔνδοξοι γενόμενοι καθίσταντο, οἷς καὶ πολλή τις εἰσήγετο σπουδὴ περὶ τὴν τῶν θεραπευομένων πρὸς αὐτῶν θρησκείαν.

English · Claude translation

When the tyrant very gladly approved their resolutions by rescript, the persecution against us was kindled again from the beginning. Priests of the images were appointed in each city, and over them high priests, by Maximin himself, men who had been especially distinguished in public life and had become famous in every office; and these brought great zeal to the worship of the gods they served.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:423 · 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

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/4/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/4/2/).