Church History 9.9.25

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

Summary: Though Constantine and Licinius had granted full freedom, Maximin yielded only when forced by divine justice.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:439

καίτοι γε ταῦθʼ οἱ τῆς εἰρήνης καὶ εὐσεβείας προήγοροι ἐπεστάλκεσαν καὶ Λικίννιος αὐτῷ τε ἐπιτρέπειν ἐπεστάλκεσαν καὶ τοῖς ὑπʼ αὐτοὺς ἅπασι διὰ προγραμμάτων καὶ νόμων συγκεχωρήκεσαν. οὐ μὴν ὁ δυσσεβέστατος ταύτῃ ἐνδοῦναι προῄρητο, εἰ μὴ ὅτε πρὸς τῆς θείας συνελαθεὶς δίκης ὕστατόν γε ἄκων ἐπὶ τοῦτʼ ἤχθη.

English · Claude translation

And yet the champions of peace and piety had written to him to permit these things, and had granted them to all their own subjects by proclamations and laws. But the most impious man did not choose to yield in this way, until, driven by divine justice, he was at last brought to it against his will.

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Source: Dindorf 4:439 · 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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Translation notes

The digital text repeats ἐπεστάλκεσαν and has καὶ Λικίννιος oddly placed; translated from the sense.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.9.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/9/25/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.9.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/9/25/).

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