Church History 9.9.16

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

Summary: He claims that under his orders no one was banished or abused, and many returned to the gods.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:437

τηνικαῦτα οὖν ὅτε ἀκολούθως τῇ κελεύσει τῇ ἐμῇ ὑπὸ τῶν δικαστῶν ἐφυλάττετο τὰ “προστεταγμένα, συνέβαινε μηδένα ἐκ τῶν τῆς ἀνα- “τολῆς μερῶν μήτε ἐξόριστον μήτε ἐνύβριστον “σθαι, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἐκ τοῦ μὴ βαρέως κατʼ “τι γίνεσθαι εἰς τὴν τῶν θεῶν θρησκείαν ἀνακεκλῆ- ‘σκθαι.

English · Claude translation

Then, while what I had commanded was observed by the judges in accordance with my order, it came about that no one in the regions of the East was banished or insulted, but rather, since nothing harsh was done against them, they were recalled to the worship of the gods.

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Source: Dindorf 4:437 · 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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Several words are defective in the digital text here; the sense is clear.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.9.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/9/16/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.9.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/9/16/).

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