Martyrs of Palestine (shorter recension) 8.1–12.1
Greek text: Dindorf (Teubner 1871) (Greek text: Wilhelm Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera (Teubner), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0). Compare: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890).
Chapter 8
8.1Dindorf 4:398
Καὶ εἰς ἕκτον δὲ ἔτος πνεύσαντος ἐπιμόνως τοῦ καθʼ ἡμῶν χειμῶνος εἶχε μὲν πρὸ τούτου τὸ καλούμενον ἐν Θηβαΐδι φερωνύμως οὗ γεννᾶται πορφυρίτου λίθου μέταλλον πλείστην ὅσην πληθὺν τῶν τῆς θεοσεβείας ὁμολογητῶν, ἐξ ὧν τρισὶ δέουσι τὸν ἀριθμὸν, ἑκατὸν ἄνδρες ἅμα γυναιξὶ καὶ κομιδῆ νηπίοις πρὸς τὸν τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἡγούμενον διαπέμπονται, οὓς τὸν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν καὶ τὸν Χριστὸν ὁμολογήσαντας, τῶν σκαιῶν ποδῶν τὰς ἀγκύλας αὐτοῖς νεύροις καυτῆρσιν ἀποτμηθῆναι, καὶ αὖ πάλιν τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τοὺς δεξιοὺς πρῶτον μὲν ξίφεσιν αὐτοῖς ὑμέσι καὶ κόραις ἐκκοπῆναι, εἶτα δὲ πυρὶ διὰ καυτήρων πάμπαν εἰς ῥίζας αὐτὰς ἀχρειωθῆναι, Φιρμιλλιανὸς, ὁ τῇδε διάδοχος Οὐρβανῷ πεμφθεὶς ἡγούμενος, ὡς ἂν ἐκ βασιλικοῦ νεύματος προστάττει· κἄπειτα αὐτοὺς τοῖς κατὰ τὴν ἐπάρχιον μετάλλοις μόχθου καὶ κακοπαθείας ἕνεκεν ταλαιπωρεῖσθαι παραδίδωσιν.
Kai eis hekton de etos pneusantos epimonōs tou kathʼ hēmōn cheimōnos eiche men pro toutou to kaloumenon en Thēbaïdi pherōnymōs hou gennatai porphyritou lithou metallon pleistēn hosēn plēthyn tōn tēs theosebeias homologētōn, ex hōn trisi deousi ton arithmon, hekaton andres hama gynaixi kai komidē nēpiois pros ton tēs Palaistinēs hēgoumenon diapempontai, hous ton tōn holōn theon kai ton Christon homologēsantas, tōn skaiōn podōn tas ankylas autois neurois kautērsin apotmēthēnai, kai au palin tōn ophthalmōn tous dexious prōton men xiphesin autois hymesi kai korais ekkopēnai, eita de pyri dia kautērōn pampan eis rhizas autas achreiōthēnai, Phirmillianos, ho tę̄de diadochos Ourbanǭ pemphtheis hēgoumenos, hōs an ek basilikou neumatos prostattei; kapeita autous tois kata tēn eparchion metallois mochthou kai kakopatheias heneken talaipōreisthai paradidōsin.
As the storm against us blew steadily into the sixth year, the mine in the Thebaid called after the porphyry stone produced there had held a very great multitude of confessors of godliness. Of these, ninety-seven men, together with women and quite small children, were sent to the governor of Palestine. When they confessed the God of the universe and Christ, Firmilian, who had been sent there as governor in succession to Urbanus, ordered, as though by imperial command, that the sinews of their left feet be cut by branding irons, and further that their right eyes first be cut out with swords, membranes and pupils together, and then be utterly destroyed to the roots by fire with branding irons; and then he handed them over to the mines of the province to suffer hardship in toil and affliction.
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Summary: Ninety-seven confessors from the porphyry mine of the Thebaid were lamed and blinded in one eye by Firmilian and sent to the mines.
- 'Ninety-seven' renders 'a hundred less three'.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.1 (Dindorf 4:398; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.2Dindorf 4:398–399
οὐ τούτους δὲ ἄρα μόνον τὰ τηλικαῦτα παθόντας ἤρκει παραλαβεῖν ὀφθαλμοῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ Παλαιστινῶν τοὺς ἐπὶ πυγμῇ εἰς μονομαχίας κατακεκρίσθαι μικρῷ πρόσθεν δεδηλωμένους, ἐπεὶ μήτε τὰς ἐκ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ ταμιείου τροφὰς μήτε μὴν τὰς ἐπιτηδείους τῇ πυγμῇ μελέτας ὑπέμενον.
ou toutous de ara monon ta tēlikauta pathontas ērkei paralabein ophthalmois, alla kai Palaistinōn tous epi pygmę̄ eis monomachias katakekristhai mikrǭ prosthen dedēlōmenous, epei mēte tas ek tou basilikou tamieiou trophas mēte mēn tas epitēdeious tę̄ pygmę̄ meletas hypemenon.
Nor was it enough to deprive of their eyes only these who had suffered so much; the same was done to the Palestinians too, mentioned a little earlier as condemned to fight as boxers, since they would accept neither food from the imperial treasury nor the training appropriate to boxing.
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Summary: The Palestinians condemned to boxing suffered the same for refusing imperial food and training.
- The verb is compressed in the Greek; the sense is that these too lost an eye.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (line-end hyphenation rejoined): δεδηλω- μένους → δεδηλωμένους.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.2 (Dindorf 4:398–399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.3Dindorf 4:399
ἤδη δὲ οὐκ ἐπιτρόποις αὐτὸ μόνον οἱ δηλούμενοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτῷ Μαξιμίνῳ τούτου γε ἕνεκεν παραστάντες γενναιοτάτην ἔνστασιν ὁμολογίας διὰ λιμοῦ καρτερίας καὶ μαστίγων ὑπομονῆς ἐνδειξάμενοι, τὰ ὅμοια τοῖς δηλωθεῖσι πεπόνθασι, μεθʼ ἑτέρων προστεθέντων αὐτοῖς ὁμολογητῶν αὐτῆς τῆς Καισαρείας.
ēdē de ouk epitropois auto monon hoi dēloumenoi, alla kai autǭ Maximinǭ toutou ge heneken parastantes gennaiotatēn enstasin homologias dia limou karterias kai mastigōn hypomonēs endeixamenoi, ta homoia tois dēlōtheisi peponthasi, methʼ heterōn prostethentōn autois homologētōn autēs tēs Kaisareias.
For this reason these men were brought not only before procurators but also before Maximin himself, and after showing a most noble firmness of confession through endurance of hunger and scourging, they suffered the same as those mentioned, together with other confessors of Caesarea itself who were added to them.
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Summary: Brought before Maximin, they endured hunger and scourging and suffered the same maiming.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.3 (Dindorf 4:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.4Dindorf 4:399
ὧν κατὰ πόδας ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν θείων ἀναγνωσμάτων συγκροτήσει κατὰ τὴν Γαζαίων πόλιν ἁλόντες ἕτεροι, οἱ μὲν τὰς αὐτὰς τούτοις ὑπέμειναν κατά τε τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν πάθας, οἱ δὲ καὶ ἔτι μείζους, φοβερωτάτων κατὰ τῶν πλευρῶν ἐπειράθησαν βασάνων.
hōn kata podas epi tę̄ tōn theiōn anagnōsmatōn synkrotēsei kata tēn Gazaiōn polin halontes heteroi, hoi men tas autas toutois hypemeinan kata te tōn podōn kai tōn ophthalmōn pathas, hoi de kai eti meizous, phoberōtatōn kata tōn pleurōn epeirathēsan basanōn.
Immediately after them others were arrested in the city of Gaza while gathered for the reading of the divine Scriptures. Some endured the same sufferings as these in their feet and eyes; others underwent still greater ones, the most dreadful tortures on their sides.
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Summary: Christians arrested at Gaza while assembled to read Scripture were maimed or tortured.
Topics: Persecution, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.4 (Dindorf 4:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.5Dindorf 4:399
ἐξ ὧν μία τις, τὸ μὲν σῶμα γυνὴ, τὸν δὲ λογισμὸν ἄρρην, πορνείας ἀπειλὴν μὴ ἐνεγκοῦσα, εἰποῦσά τι ῥῆμα κατὰ τοῦ τυράννου, ὡσὰν οὕτως ὠμοῖς δικασταῖς τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπιτετραφότος, πρῶτον μὲν μαστίζεται, εἶτα δὲ μετέωρος ἐπὶ τοῦ ξύλου γενομένη τὰς πλευρὰς αἰκίζεται.
ex hōn mia tis, to men sōma gynē, ton de logismon arrēn, porneias apeilēn mē enenkousa, eipousa ti rhēma kata tou tyrannou, hōsan houtōs ōmois dikastais tēn archēn epitetraphotos, prōton men mastizetai, eita de meteōros epi tou xylou genomenē tas pleuras aikizetai.
Of these, one, a woman in body but a man in mind, would not bear the threat of being given over to sexual immorality and spoke a word against the tyrant for entrusting the government to such cruel judges; she was first scourged, then raised on the rack and her sides were tortured.
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Summary: A woman of Gaza, threatened with prostitution, denounced the emperor and was scourged and racked.
- 'The threat of being given over to sexual immorality' renders πορνείας ἀπειλήν, the threat of forced prostitution.
Topics: Martyrdom, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.5 (Dindorf 4:399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.6Dindorf 4:399–400
ὡς δʼ ἐπιμόνως καὶ σφοδρῶς ἐκ προστάξεως τοῦ δικαστοῦ τὰς βασάνους ἐπῆγον οἱ ταύτῃ τεταγμένοι, ὑπὲρ τοὺς παρʼ Ἕλλησιν ἐκείνους μαχητὰς ἐπʼ ἐλευθερίᾳ τεθρυλημένους, μὴ βαστάσασα τὸ ἀνηλεὲς καὶ ὠμὸν καὶ ἀπάνθρωπον τῶν πραττομένων, ἄλλη τις ὁμοίως τῇ προτέρᾳ τὸν τῆς παρθενίας ἐπανῃρημένη σκοπὸν, τὸ μὲν σῶμα πάνυ γε τὸ δοκεῖν εὐτελὴς καὶ τὴν ὄψιν εὐκαταφρόνητος, ῥωμαλέα δὲ ἄλλως τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ μείζονα τοῦ σώματος τὸν λογισμὸν ἐνεστερνισμένη “καὶ μέχρι τίνος”, ἐκ μέσου τοῦ ὄχλου, ‟τὴν ἐμὴν ὠμῶς οὕτως βασανίζεις ἀδελφήν”; ἀνέκραγε πρὸς τὸν δικαστήν· ὁ δὲ πικρότερον ὑποκινηθεὶς αὐτίκα συλληφθῆναι κελεύει τὴν ἄνθρωπον.
hōs dʼ epimonōs kai sphodrōs ek prostaxeōs tou dikastou tas basanous epēgon hoi tautę̄ tetagmenoi, hyper tous parʼ Hellēsin ekeinous machētas epʼ eleutherią tethrylēmenous, mē bastasasa to anēlees kai ōmon kai apanthrōpon tōn prattomenōn, allē tis homoiōs tę̄ proterą ton tēs parthenias epanę̄rēmenē skopon, to men sōma pany ge to dokein eutelēs kai tēn opsin eukataphronētos, rhōmalea de allōs tēn psychēn kai meizona tou sōmatos ton logismon enesternismenē “kai mechri tinos”, ek mesou tou ochlou, ‟tēn emēn ōmōs houtōs basanizeis adelphēn”? anekrage pros ton dikastēn; ho de pikroteron hypokinētheis autika syllēphthēnai keleuei tēn anthrōpon.
As those appointed for this were applying the tortures persistently and violently at the judge's order, another woman, who like the first had chosen the aim of virginity, could not bear the merciless, cruel and inhuman things being done. She was, to all appearance, quite insignificant in body and contemptible in looks, but otherwise strong in soul and holding in her breast a mind greater than her body, surpassing those fighters for freedom celebrated among the Greeks. From the middle of the crowd she cried out to the judge, "How long will you torture my sister so cruelly?" He was more bitterly provoked and at once ordered the woman to be seized.
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Summary: Another virgin cried out from the crowd against the torture of her sister in faith and was arrested.
- The comparison with the Greek 'fighters for freedom' is placed in the Greek next to the subject of the sentence; its reference is not certain.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in accent): οἶ ταύτῃ → οἱ ταύτῃ.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.6 (Dindorf 4:399–400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.7Dindorf 4:400
εἶτα σύρεται εἰς μέσον, καὶ τὸ σεβάσμιον τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐπιγραψαμένη ὄνομα πρῶτον μὲν λόγοις θύειν ἀνεπείθετο, ὡς δʼ ἠπείθει, βίᾳ πρὸς τὸν βωμὸν εἵλκετο. ἡ δὲ ἀδελφὰ ἑαυτῇ πράττουσα καὶ τῆς προτέρας ἐχομένη προθυμίας ἀτρεμεῖ, καὶ θαρσαλέῳ ποδὶ λὰξ ἐντείνει τῷ βωμῷ, καὶ τὰ εἰς αὐτὸν ἄμα τῇ ἐπικειμένῃ ἀνατρέπει πυρᾷ.
eita syretai eis meson, kai to sebasmion tou sōtēros epigrapsamenē onoma prōton men logois thyein anepeitheto, hōs dʼ ēpeithei, bią pros ton bōmon heilketo. hē de adelpha heautę̄ prattousa kai tēs proteras echomenē prothymias atremei, kai tharsaleǭ podi lax enteinei tǭ bōmǭ, kai ta eis auton ama tę̄ epikeimenę̄ anatrepei pyrą.
Then she was dragged into the midst, and having enrolled herself under the venerable name of the Saviour, she was first urged with words to sacrifice; and when she refused, she was dragged by force to the altar. But she, acting like her sister and keeping her former eagerness, with an unshaken and bold foot kicked the altar and overturned it, with the fire burning on it.
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Summary: Dragged to the altar, she kicked it over.
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- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in accent): τοὐ σωτῆρος → τοῦ σωτῆρος.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.7 (Dindorf 4:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.8Dindorf 4:400
ἐφʼ ᾧ θηρὸς ἀγρίου δίκην ὁ δικαστὴς ὀξυνθεὶς τὸν θυμὸν, τοσαύτας μὲν αὐτῇ πρότερον αἰκίας κατὰ τῶν πλευρῶν ἐπιτίθησιν, ὅσας οὐδενὶ τῶν πώποτε, μονονουχὶ καὶ ὠμῶν τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτῆς ἐμφορηθῆναι γλιχόμενος· ὡς δὲ κόρον αὐτῶ ἤδη τὰ τῆς μανίας ἐλάμβανεν, ἄμφω ζεύξας, αὐτήν τε ταύτην ἅμα τῇ πρὸς αὐτῆς ἀδελφῇ προσαγορευθείσῃ, τὸν διὰ πυρὸς αὐτῶν καταψηφίζεται θάνατον. τούτων ἡ μὲν προτέρα τῆς Γαζαίων χώρας ἐλέγετο, τὴν δʼ ἑτέραν ἰστέον ἀπὸ τῆς Καισαρέων ὡρμῆσθαι, τὴν πολλοῖς γνώριμον Οὐαλεντῖναν τοὔνομα.
ephʼ hǭ thēros agriou dikēn ho dikastēs oxyntheis ton thymon, tosautas men autę̄ proteron aikias kata tōn pleurōn epitithēsin, hosas oudeni tōn pōpote, mononouchi kai ōmōn tōn sarkōn autēs emphorēthēnai glichomenos; hōs de koron autō ēdē ta tēs manias elambanen, amphō zeuxas, autēn te tautēn hama tę̄ pros autēs adelphę̄ prosagoreutheisę̄, ton dia pyros autōn katapsēphizetai thanaton. toutōn hē men protera tēs Gazaiōn chōras elegeto, tēn dʼ heteran isteon apo tēs Kaisareōn hōrmēsthai, tēn pollois gnōrimon Oualentinan tounoma.
At this the judge, his rage sharpened like a wild beast's, first inflicted on her more tortures on her sides than on anyone ever, all but longing to glut himself on her raw flesh. When his madness had had its fill, he bound both together, this woman and the one she had called her sister, and condemned them to death by fire. Of these, the first was said to be from the district of Gaza; the other, one should know, came from Caesarea, and was known to many: her name was Valentina.
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Summary: Both women were burned; the second was Valentina of Caesarea.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark in the digital text): γλιχόμενος.· → γλιχόμενος·.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.8 (Dindorf 4:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.9Dindorf 4:400
τὸ ἐπὶ τούτῳ μαρτύριον πῶς ἂν κατʼ ἀξίαν διέλθοιμι, οὗ κατηξίωται ὁ τρισμακάριος Παῦλος, κατὰ μὲν τὴν αὐτὴν ταύταις ὥραν ὑπὸ μίαν ἀπόφασιν τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ κριθεὶς, πρὸς αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ τελειώσει τὸν ἀποτέμνειν αὐτὸν ὅσον οὔπω μέλλοντα βραχύ τι ὥρας ἐνδοῦναι αὐτῷ ἀντιβολήσας·
to epi toutǭ martyrion pōs an katʼ axian dielthoimi, hou katēxiōtai ho trismakarios Paulos, kata men tēn autēn tautais hōran hypo mian apophasin tēn epi thanatǭ kritheis, pros autę̄ de tę̄ teleiōsei ton apotemnein auton hoson oupō mellonta brachy ti hōras endounai autǭ antibolēsas;
How could I worthily describe the martyrdom that followed, of which the thrice-blessed Paul was counted worthy? He was condemned to death at the same hour as these women, under one sentence; and at the very moment of his perfecting he begged the man who was just about to behead him to grant him a short time.
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Summary: Paul, condemned with them, asked the executioner for a little time.
- The text reads κατηξίω τᾶι, a garbled form of κατηξίωται ('was counted worthy').
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR garbled word): κατηξίω τᾶι → κατηξίωται.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.9 (Dindorf 4:400; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.10Dindorf 4:400–401
οὗ τυχὼν λαμπρᾷ καὶ γεγωνῷ φωνῇ πρῶτον μὲν τὰς ὑπὲρ τῶν ὁμοεθνῶν ἐπρυτάνευε τῷ θεῷ διʼ εὐχῶν καταλλαγὰς, ᾗ τάχος ἐλευθερίαν αὐτοῖς ἐνδοθῆναι ποτνιώμενος, εἶθʼ ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἰουδαίων πρὸς τὸν θεὸν διὰ Χριστοῦ προσαγωγῆς ἠξίου, εἶθʼ ἐξῆς κατέβαινε τῷ λόγῳ, τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ Σαμαρείταις ἐπευχόμενος, καὶ τοὺς ἐν πλάνῃ δὲ καὶ ἀγνωσία θεοῦ τῶν ἐθνῶν ὄντας, εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἐλθεῖν αὐτοὺς, καὶ τὴν ἀληθῶς εὐσέβειαν ἀναλαβεῖν παρεκάλει, μηδὲ τοὺς τότε παμμιγῆ περιεστῶτας ἀτημελήτους καταλιπών·
hou tychōn lamprą kai gegōnǭ phōnę̄ prōton men tas hyper tōn homoethnōn eprytaneue tǭ theǭ diʼ euchōn katallagas, hę̄ tachos eleutherian autois endothēnai potniōmenos, eithʼ hyper tēs Ioudaiōn pros ton theon dia Christou prosagōgēs ēxiou, eithʼ exēs katebaine tǭ logǭ, ta auta kai Samareitais epeuchomenos, kai tous en planę̄ de kai agnōsia theou tōn ethnōn ontas, eis epignōsin elthein autous, kai tēn alēthōs eusebeian analabein parekalei, mēde tous tote pammigē periestōtas atēmelētous katalipōn;
Having obtained it, with a clear and ringing voice he first sought from God in prayer reconciliation for his own people, imploring that freedom be granted them as soon as possible; then he asked for the Jews' approach to God through Christ; then, going on in order, he prayed for the same for the Samaritans too; and he besought that those of the nations who were in error and ignorance of God might come to knowledge of him and take up true godliness; nor did he leave unregarded the mixed crowd then standing around.
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Summary: Paul prayed for the Christians, the Jews, the Samaritans, the pagans, and the bystanders.
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- Digital text corrected (split word rejoined): καὶ γε γωνῷ → καὶ γεγωνῷ.
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.10 (Dindorf 4:400–401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.11Dindorf 4:401
μεθʼ οὓς πάντας, ὢ τῆς πολλῆς καὶ ἀφάτου ἀνεξικακίας, καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ τὸν θάνατον αὐτῷ προστιμήσαντος δικαστοῦ, τῶν τε ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἀρχόντων, ἔτι τε καὶ τοῦ ὅσον οὔπω τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτὸν ἀποτεμοῦντος, εἰς ἐπήκοον αὐτοῦ τʼ ἐκείνου καὶ τῶν παρόντων ἁπάντων, τοῦ τῶν ὅλων ἐδεῖτο θεοῦ, μηδαμῶς αὐτοῖς ἐν ἀριθμῷ γενέσθαι τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν ἁμαρτάδα παρακαλῶν.
methʼ hous pantas, ō tēs pollēs kai aphatou anexikakias, kai hyper tou ton thanaton autǭ prostimēsantos dikastou, tōn te epi pasin archontōn, eti te kai tou hoson oupō tēs kephalēs auton apotemountos, eis epēkoon autou tʼ ekeinou kai tōn parontōn hapantōn, tou tōn holōn edeito theou, mēdamōs autois en arithmǭ genesthai tēn eis auton hamartada parakalōn.
After all these (O the great and unspeakable forbearance!) he prayed to the God of the universe also for the judge who had sentenced him to death, and for the highest rulers, and even for the man who was about to cut off his head, in the hearing of that man and of all present, beseeching that their sin against him might in no way be counted against them.
Acts 7:60 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 23:34 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: He prayed also for his judge, the rulers, and his executioner, that their sin not be counted against them.
- Compare Stephen's prayer, Acts 7:60, and Luke 23:34.
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.11 (Dindorf 4:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.12Dindorf 4:401
ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα μεγάλῃ φωνῇ κατευξάμενος, καὶ μονονουχὶ τοὺς πάντας ὡσὰν ἀδίκως ἀναιρούμενος, εἰς οἶκτον ἑλκύσας καὶ δάκρυα, ᾗ νόμος αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν σχηματίσας καὶ τὸν αὐχένα γυμνὸν τῇ τοῦ ξίφους ἀποτομῇ παραδοὺς, θείῳ κατεκοσμήθη μαρτυρίῳ, μηνὸς Πανέμου πέμπτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι, ἣ λέγοιτʼ ἂν πρὸ ὀκτὼ Καλανδῶν Αὐγούστων. καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ τούσδε τοιοῦτο τέλος εἶχεν.
tauta kai ta toiauta megalę̄ phōnę̄ kateuxamenos, kai mononouchi tous pantas hōsan adikōs anairoumenos, eis oikton helkysas kai dakrya, hę̄ nomos autos heauton schēmatisas kai ton auchena gymnon tę̄ tou xiphous apotomę̄ paradous, theiǭ katekosmēthē martyriǭ, mēnos Panemou pemptę̄ kai eikadi, hē legoitʼ an pro oktō Kalandōn Augoustōn. kai ta men kata tousde toiouto telos eichen.
Having prayed these and similar things with a loud voice, and having moved almost everyone to pity and tears as one being unjustly put to death, he composed himself as the custom is, offered his bare neck to the stroke of the sword, and was adorned with divine martyrdom, on the twenty-fifth of the month Panemus, which would be called the eighth day before the Kalends of August. Such was the end of these.
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Summary: Paul was beheaded on 25 July.
- 25 July 308.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.12 (Dindorf 4:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.13Dindorf 4:401
οὐ μακροῦ δὲ διαδραμόντος χρόνου αὐθις ἐκ τῆς Αἰγυπτίων γῆς οἱ θαυμάσιοι τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν ὁμολογίας ἀθληταὶ τριάκοντα πρὸς ἑκατὸν, ἐκ προστάξεως Μαξιμίνου τὰς αὐτὰς τοῖς προτέροις ἐπʼ αὐτῆς Αἰγύπτου εἴς τε τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ τοὺς πόδας συμφορὰς ὑποστάντες, τοῖς δεδηλωμένοις ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ μετάλλοις, οἱ δὲ τοῖς Κιλικίαν κατάκριτοι παραπέμπονται.
ou makrou de diadramontos chronou authis ek tēs Aigyptiōn gēs hoi thaumasioi tēs eis Christon homologias athlētai triakonta pros hekaton, ek prostaxeōs Maximinou tas autas tois proterois epʼ autēs Aigyptou eis te tous ophthalmous kai tous podas symphoras hypostantes, tois dedēlōmenois en Palaistinę̄ metallois, hoi de tois Kilikian katakritoi parapempontai.
Not much time had passed when again, from the land of Egypt, the wonderful athletes of the confession of Christ, a hundred and thirty, after suffering in Egypt itself by Maximin's order the same injuries to their eyes and feet as the former ones, were sent away, some to the mines in Palestine already mentioned, others condemned to those in Cilicia.
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Summary: A hundred and thirty Egyptian confessors, maimed likewise, were sent to the mines of Palestine and Cilicia.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 8.13 (Dindorf 4:401; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/8-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 9
9.1Dindorf 4:401–402
Ἐπὶ δὴ τοῖς τοσούτοις τῶν μεγαλοπρεπῶν Χριστοῦ μαρτύρων ἀνδραγαθήμασι λωφησάσης καὶ ὡσανεὶ τοῖς ἱεροῖς αὐτῶν αἵμασι τῆς τοῦ διωγμοῦ πυρκαιᾶς ἀποσβεννυμένης, ἀνέσεως τε ἤδη καὶ ἐλευθερίας τοῖς ἐπὶ Θηβαίδος εἰς τὰ αὐτόθι μέταλλα διὰ Χριστὸν καταπονουμένοις συγκεχωρημένης, μικρόν τε ἐκ καθαροῦ μελλόντων ἡμῶν ὑπαναπνεῖν ἀέρος, οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως ἔκ τινος ἀνακινήσεως πάλιν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς ὁ τοῦ διώκειν τὴν ἐξουσίαν εἰληχὼς κατὰ Χριστιανῶν ἀνεκάετο.
Epi dē tois tosoutois tōn megaloprepōn Christou martyrōn andragathēmasi lōphēsasēs kai hōsanei tois hierois autōn haimasi tēs tou diōgmou pyrkaias aposbennymenēs, aneseōs te ēdē kai eleutherias tois epi Thēbaidos eis ta autothi metalla dia Christon kataponoumenois synkechōrēmenēs, mikron te ek katharou mellontōn hēmōn hypanapnein aeros, ouk oidʼ hopōs ek tinos anakinēseōs palin ex hyparchēs ho tou diōkein tēn exousian eilēchōs kata Christianōn anekaeto.
After so many brave deeds of the magnificent martyrs of Christ, the blaze of persecution had abated and was, as it were, being quenched by their holy blood; relief and freedom had already been granted to those toiling for Christ's sake in the mines of the Thebaid; and we were about to breathe a little pure air again, when, I know not how, from some stirring, the one who had been allotted the power to persecute was inflamed against the Christians anew.
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Summary: Just as persecution eased, Maximin was roused against the Christians again.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.1 (Dindorf 4:401–402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.2Dindorf 4:402
ἀθρόως δʼ οὖν αὖθις Μαξιμίνου διαφοιτᾷ καθʼ ἡμῶν πανταχοῦ γράμματα κατʼ ἐπαρχίαν, ἡγεμόνες τε καὶ προσέτι ὁ τῶν στρατοπέδων ἄρχειν ἐπιτεταγμένος προγράμμασι καὶ ἐπιστολαῖς καὶ δημοσίοις διατάγμασι τοὺς ἐν ἁπάσαις πόλεσι λογιστὰς ἅμα στρατηγοῖς καὶ ταβουλαρίοις ἐπέσπερχον τὸ βασιλικὸν εἰς πέρας ἄγειν πρόσταγμα, κελεῦον ὡς ἂν μετὰ σπουδῆς πάσης τῶν μὲν εἰδώλων ἀνοικοδομοῖεν τὰ πεπτωκότα, πανδημεὶ δὲ πάντας ἄνδρας ἅμα γυναιξὶ καὶ οἰκέταις καὶ αὐτοῖς ὑπομαζίοις παισὶ θύειν καὶ σπένδειν, αὐτῶν τε ἀκριβῶς τῶν ἐναγῶν ἀπογεύεσθαι θυσιῶν ἐπιμελὲς ποιοῖντο, καὶ τὰ μὲν κατʼ ἀγορὰν ὤνια ταῖς ἀπὸ τῶν θυσιῶν σπονδαῖς καταμολύνοιτο, πρόσθεν δὲ τῶν λουτρῶν ἔφεδροι κατατάσσοιντο, ὡς ἂν τοὺς ἐν τούτοις ἀποκαθαιρομένους ταῖς παμμιάροις μολύνοιεν θυσίαις.
athroōs dʼ oun authis Maximinou diaphoitą kathʼ hēmōn pantachou grammata katʼ eparchian, hēgemones te kai proseti ho tōn stratopedōn archein epitetagmenos programmasi kai epistolais kai dēmosiois diatagmasi tous en hapasais polesi logistas hama stratēgois kai taboulariois epesperchon to basilikon eis peras agein prostagma, keleuon hōs an meta spoudēs pasēs tōn men eidōlōn anoikodomoien ta peptōkota, pandēmei de pantas andras hama gynaixi kai oiketais kai autois hypomaziois paisi thyein kai spendein, autōn te akribōs tōn enagōn apogeuesthai thysiōn epimeles poiointo, kai ta men katʼ agoran ōnia tais apo tōn thysiōn spondais katamolynoito, prosthen de tōn loutrōn ephedroi katatassointo, hōs an tous en toutois apokathairomenous tais pammiarois molynoien thysiais.
Suddenly, then, Maximin's letters against us were again circulated everywhere, province by province; and governors, and besides them the man appointed to command the armies, by proclamations, letters and public decrees urged the curators in all the cities, together with the magistrates and the registrars, to carry the imperial command into effect. It ordered that with all diligence they should rebuild the ruined temples of the idols; that they should see to it that all the people, men together with women and servants and even infants at the breast, should sacrifice and pour libations and actually taste of the accursed sacrifices; that the goods for sale in the market should be defiled with libations from the sacrifices; and that guards should be posted before the baths, so as to defile with the utterly foul sacrifices those who were washing themselves in them.
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Summary: Maximin's new edict ordered temples rebuilt, universal sacrifice and eating of sacrificial food, market goods defiled, and guards at the baths.
- 'Curators' (λογισταί), 'magistrates' (στρατηγοί) and 'registrars' (ταβουλάριοι) are municipal officials.
Topics: Persecution, Idolatry
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.2 (Dindorf 4:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.3Dindorf 4:402
τούτων δῆτα οὕτως ἐπιτελουμένων, ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς τε τῶν ἡμετέρων πλείστῃ, οἷα δὴ εἰκὸς ἢν, φροντίδι συνεχομένων, τῶν τε ἀπίστων ἐθνῶν βαρεῖαν τῶν γινομένων καὶ ὡσὰν περιττὴν ἤδη τὴν ἀτοπίαν καταμεμφομένων, προσκορῆ γὰρ καὶ φορτικὰ ταῦτα καὶ αὐτοῖς εἶναι κατεφαίνετο), μεγίστου τε χειμῶνος τοῖς πανταχῆ πᾶσιν ἐπηρτημένου, τοὔμπαλιν ἡ θεία τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν δύναμις τοῖς αὐτῆς ἀθληταῖς θάρσος τοσοῦτον ἐνέπνει ὡς μηδʼ ἐπισπωμένου τινὸς μηδʼ ἕλκοντος τὴν τῶν τοσούτων καταπατεῖν ἀπειλήν.
toutōn dēta houtōs epiteloumenōn, ex hyparchēs te tōn hēmeterōn pleistę̄, hoia dē eikos ēn, phrontidi synechomenōn, tōn te apistōn ethnōn bareian tōn ginomenōn kai hōsan perittēn ēdē tēn atopian katamemphomenōn, proskorē gar kai phortika tauta kai autois einai katephaineto), megistou te cheimōnos tois pantachē pasin epērtēmenou, toumpalin hē theia tou sōtēros hēmōn dynamis tois autēs athlētais tharsos tosouton enepnei hōs mēdʼ epispōmenou tinos mēdʼ helkontos tēn tōn tosoutōn katapatein apeilēn.
While these things were being carried out in this way, and our people, as was natural, were again gripped by the greatest anxiety, and even the unbelieving pagans were blaming the harshness of what was done as now excessive and absurd (for these things seemed to them too wearisome and burdensome), and the greatest storm hung over all everywhere, on the contrary the divine power of our Saviour breathed such courage into his athletes that, though no one was drawing or dragging them, they trampled on the threats of such great powers.
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Summary: Even pagans thought the measures excessive, while Christ's power gave his martyrs courage to defy them unbidden.
- The digital text lacks the opening parenthesis before 'for these things'.
Topics: Persecution, Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.3 (Dindorf 4:402; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.4Dindorf 4:402–403
ὁμόσε δὴ οὖν τρεῖς συνταξάμενοι τῶν πιστῶν ἐπιπηδῶσιν εἰδώλοις θύοντι τῷ ἄρχοντι, παύσασθαι τῆς πλάνης ἐμβοώμενοι· μὴ γὰρ δὴ ἄλλον ὑπάρχειν πλὴν τοῦ τῶν ὅλων ποιητοῦ τε καὶ δημιουργοῦ θεόν. ἀνερωτώμενοι δῆτα τίνες εἶεν Χριστιανοὺς σφᾶς θαρσαλέως ὡμολόγουν.
homose dē oun treis syntaxamenoi tōn pistōn epipēdōsin eidōlois thyonti tǭ archonti, pausasthai tēs planēs emboōmenoi; mē gar dē allon hyparchein plēn tou tōn holōn poiētou te kai dēmiourgou theon. anerōtōmenoi dēta tines eien Christianous sphas tharsaleōs hōmologoun.
Three of the faithful, having joined together, rushed upon the governor as he was sacrificing to idols, crying out to him to cease from his error, for there is no other God but the Maker and Creator of the universe. When asked who they were, they boldly confessed themselves Christians.
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Summary: Three Christians interrupted the governor's sacrifice, urging him to abandon idols.
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.4 (Dindorf 4:402–403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.5Dindorf 4:403
ἐφʼ οἷς ὀξύτερον παρακινηθεὶς ὁ Φιρμιλλιανὸς, μηδὲ βασάνοις αὐτοὺς αἰκισάμενος κεφαλικῇ παραδίδωσι κολάσει. τούτων ὁ μὲν πρεσβύτερος ἦν, Ἀντωνῖνος ὄνομα, ὁ δὲ Ζεβινᾶς ἐκαλεῖτο, τῆς Ἐλευθεροπολιτῶν ὁρμώμενος, Γερμανὸς δὲ καὶ τῷ τρίτῳ ἦν ἡ προσηγορία. Δίου μηνὸς τρισκαιδεκάτῃ, Εἰδοῖς Νοεμβρίαις καὶ τὰ κατὰ τούτους ἐπράχθη.
ephʼ hois oxyteron parakinētheis ho Phirmillianos, mēde basanois autous aikisamenos kephalikę̄ paradidōsi kolasei. toutōn ho men presbyteros ēn, Antōninos onoma, ho de Zebinas ekaleito, tēs Eleutheropolitōn hormōmenos, Germanos de kai tǭ tritǭ ēn hē prosēgoria. Diou mēnos triskaidekatę̄, Eidois Noembriais kai ta kata toutous eprachthē.
At this Firmilian was more sharply provoked, and without even tormenting them with tortures he gave them over to capital punishment. Of these, the elder was named Antoninus; another was called Zebinas, from Eleutheropolis; and the third bore the name Germanus. Their martyrdom was accomplished on the thirteenth of the month Dius, the Ides of November.
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Summary: Firmilian had Antoninus, Zebinas and Germanus beheaded on 13 November.
- 'The elder' (ὁ πρεσβύτερος) may mean 'the presbyter'; the Greek allows either.
- 13 November 308.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in breathing and accent): ἐφʼ οἶς → ἐφʼ οἷς.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.5 (Dindorf 4:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.6Dindorf 4:403
γίνεται δʼ οὖν αὐτοῖς συναπόδημος ἐπʼ αὐτῆς ἡμέρας Ἐνναθὰς τῶν ἀπὸ Σκυθοπόλεώς τις γυνὴ, στέμματι καὶ αὐτὴ κεκοσμημένη, οὐ ταὐτὸν μὲν αὐτοῖς διαπραξαμένη, ἑλχθεῖσα δὲ βίᾳ καὶ προσαχθεῖσα τῷ δικαστῇ.
ginetai dʼ oun autois synapodēmos epʼ autēs hēmeras Ennathas tōn apo Skythopoleōs tis gynē, stemmati kai autē kekosmēmenē, ou tauton men autois diapraxamenē, helchtheisa de bią kai prosachtheisa tǭ dikastę̄.
On the same day a woman from Scythopolis, Ennathas, became their companion on the journey, she too adorned with a crown. She had not done the same as they, but had been dragged by force and brought before the judge.
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Summary: On the same day Ennathas of Scythopolis, who had been dragged to court, was martyred with them.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.6 (Dindorf 4:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.7Dindorf 4:403
μετὰ μάστιγας οὖν καὶ δεινὰς ὕβρεις, ἃς ἐπήγαγεν αὐτῇ, οὐδὲ μετὰ γνώμης τῆς μείζονος ἐξουσίας, τῶν κατὰ γειτνίαν ἐφεστώτων τις χιλιάρχων ἐτόλμα, Μάξυς ὄνομα, χείρων τῆς προσηγορίας ἄνθρωπος, μιαρὸς μὲν τὰ ἄλλα, ἰσχυρὸς δʼ ὑπερβαλλόντως τὸ ἦθος, καὶ τὸν πάντα τρόπον δεινός τις ὄντως καὶ παρὰ πᾶσι τοῖς γνωρίμοις διαβεβλημένος, οὗτος μέν γε ἐσθῆτος ἁπάσης τὴν μακαρίαν ἀποδύσας, ὡς τὴν ἐξ ὀσφύος αὐτὸ μόνον καὶ ἐπὶ πόδας καλύπτεσθαι, τὸ δʼ ἄλλο σῶμα γυμνὸν ἔχειν, τήν τε πάσαν Καισαρέων πόλιν κύκλῳ περιαγαγὼν, ἱμᾶσιν ἀνὰ πάσας ἑλκομένην τὰς ἀγορὰς τύπτεσθαι περὶ πολλοῦ ποιεῖται.
meta mastigas oun kai deinas hybreis, has epēgagen autę̄, oude meta gnōmēs tēs meizonos exousias, tōn kata geitnian ephestōtōn tis chiliarchōn etolma, Maxys onoma, cheirōn tēs prosēgorias anthrōpos, miaros men ta alla, ischyros dʼ hyperballontōs to ēthos, kai ton panta tropon deinos tis ontōs kai para pasi tois gnōrimois diabeblēmenos, houtos men ge esthētos hapasēs tēn makarian apodysas, hōs tēn ex osphyos auto monon kai epi podas kalyptesthai, to dʼ allo sōma gymnon echein, tēn te pasan Kaisareōn polin kyklǭ periagagōn, himasin ana pasas helkomenēn tas agoras typtesthai peri pollou poieitai.
After scourgings and terrible outrages, which one of the tribunes stationed in the neighbourhood dared to inflict on her even without the consent of the higher authority, a man named Maxys, worse than his name, foul in other respects, exceedingly violent in character, truly terrible in every way and in ill repute with all who knew him, this man stripped the blessed woman of all her clothing, so that she was covered only from the waist to the feet and the rest of her body was bare; and he made a great point of leading her around the whole city of Caesarea and having her beaten with thongs as she was dragged through all the market-places.
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Summary: The tribune Maxys, without authority, stripped Ennathas and had her whipped through the markets of Caesarea.
- 'Worse than his name': the name Maxys perhaps suggests 'greatest' (Maximus); the play is uncertain.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in accent): καἰ → καὶ.
Topics: Martyrdom, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.7 (Dindorf 4:403; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.8Dindorf 4:403–404
καὶ δὴ μετὰ τοσαῦτα θαρσαλεωτάτην ἔνστασιν καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτῶν τῶν ἡγεμονικῶν βημάτων ἐνδειξαμένην ζῶσαν πυρὶ παραδίδωσιν ὁ δικαστὴς, ὃς καὶ τὸ ἀπάνθρωπον ἐπιτείνας τὴν κατὰ τῶν θεοσεβῶν λύτταν πέρα τῶν τῆς φύσεως προῄει θεσμῶν, οὐδὲ ταφῆς αἰδούμενος ἀψύχοις φθονῆσαι τοῖς τῶν ἱερῶν ἀνδρῶν σώμασι.
kai dē meta tosauta tharsaleōtatēn enstasin kai epʼ autōn tōn hēgemonikōn bēmatōn endeixamenēn zōsan pyri paradidōsin ho dikastēs, hos kai to apanthrōpon epiteinas tēn kata tōn theosebōn lyttan pera tōn tēs physeōs proę̄ei thesmōn, oude taphēs aidoumenos apsychois phthonēsai tois tōn hierōn andrōn sōmasi.
After all this, when she had shown a most daring firmness at the very tribunal of the governor, the judge gave her over alive to the fire. He also, intensifying his inhuman rage against the godly, went beyond the laws of nature, and was not ashamed to grudge burial to the lifeless bodies of the holy men.
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Summary: Ennathas was burned alive, and the judge denied burial to the martyrs' bodies.
Topics: Martyrdom, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.8 (Dindorf 4:403–404; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.9Dindorf 4:404
νύκτωρ δʼ οὖν ἐπιμελῶς καὶ μεθʼ ἡμέραν ὑπαίθρους θηρσὶν εἰς βορὰν τοὺς νεκροὺς φυλάττεσθαι προστάττει. καὶ παρῆν ὁρᾶν ἐπὶ πλείοσιν ἡμέραις οὐκ ὀλίγον ἀνδρῶν ἀριθμὸν τῇ θηριώδει ταύτῃ καὶ βαρβάρῳ βουλῇ διακονουμένων. ἀλλʼ οἱ μὲν ἐξ ἐπόπτου, οἷόν τι σπουδῆς ἄξιον, ὡς μὴ οἱ νεκροὶ κλαπεῖεν, ἐπεσκόπουν, θῆρες δὲ ἄγριοι καὶ κύνες, οἰωνῶν τε τὰ σαρκοβόρα τὰ βρότεια μέλη ὧδε κἀκεῖσε ἐσπάραττον.
nyktōr dʼ oun epimelōs kai methʼ hēmeran hypaithrous thērsin eis boran tous nekrous phylattesthai prostattei. kai parēn horan epi pleiosin hēmerais ouk oligon andrōn arithmon tę̄ thēriōdei tautę̄ kai barbarǭ boulę̄ diakonoumenōn. allʼ hoi men ex epoptou, hoion ti spoudēs axion, hōs mē hoi nekroi klapeien, epeskopoun, thēres de agrioi kai kynes, oiōnōn te ta sarkobora ta broteia melē hōde kakeise esparatton.
He ordered that the corpses be guarded carefully night and day in the open air as food for beasts. And for many days one could see no small number of men serving this beastly and barbarous decision. Some kept watch from a lookout, as though it were something worth their zeal, so that the corpses should not be stolen; while wild beasts and dogs and carrion birds tore the human limbs here and there.
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Summary: The bodies were guarded in the open to be devoured by beasts and birds.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR dropped iota subscript; OCR slip in accent; OCR slips in breathing and accent): βουλῆ → βουλῇ; ἀλλʼ οἶ μὲν ἐξ ἐπόπτου, οἶόν → ἀλλʼ οἱ μὲν ἐξ ἐπόπτου, οἷόν; μὴ οἶ νεκροὶ → μὴ οἱ νεκροὶ.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.9 (Dindorf 4:404; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.10Dindorf 4:404
καὶ ἡ πᾶσά γε μὴν ἐν κύκλῳ πόλις σπλάγχνων καὶ ὀστέων ἀνθρωπείων διεστόρνυτο, ὡς μηδέ τι πώποτε δεινότερον μηδʼ αὐτοῖς, ὅσοι πρότερον ἀπεχθῶς εἶχον πρὸς ἡμᾶς, φανῆναι φρικωδέστερον, οὐχ οὕτω τὴν συμφορὰν εἰς οὓς ἐπράττετο ταῦτα, ὡς ἐπὶ τῇ σφῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τῆς κοινῆς ἁπάντων ὕβρει φύσεως ἀπολοφυρομένων.
kai hē pasa ge mēn en kyklǭ polis splanchnōn kai osteōn anthrōpeiōn diestornyto, hōs mēde ti pōpote deinoteron mēdʼ autois, hosoi proteron apechthōs eichon pros hēmas, phanēnai phrikōdesteron, ouch houtō tēn symphoran eis hous epratteto tauta, hōs epi tę̄ sphōn autōn kai tēs koinēs hapantōn hybrei physeōs apolophyromenōn.
And the whole city round about was strewn with human entrails and bones, so that nothing ever seemed more terrible and horrifying even to those who had formerly been hostile to us; they lamented not so much the misfortune of those to whom this was done as the outrage against themselves and against the common nature of all.
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Summary: The city was strewn with human remains, horrifying even enemies of the Christians.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.10 (Dindorf 4:404; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.11Dindorf 4:404
προύκειτο γὰρ ἄγχιστα πυλῶν, θέαμα παντὸς λόγου καὶ τραγικῆς ἀκοῆς μεῖζον, οὐκ ἐφʼ ἐνὶ χώρῳ κατεσθιομένων τῶν ἀνθρωπείων σαρκῶν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πάντα τόπον διαρριπτουμένων. μέλη γοῦν καὶ σάρκας ὅλας, μέρη τέ τινα σπλάγχνων καὶ πυλῶν εἴσω τινὲς κατιδεῖν εἰρήκασιν.
proukeito gar anchista pylōn, theama pantos logou kai tragikēs akoēs meizon, ouk ephʼ eni chōrǭ katesthiomenōn tōn anthrōpeiōn sarkōn, alla kata panta topon diarriptoumenōn. melē goun kai sarkas holas, merē te tina splanchnōn kai pylōn eisō tines katidein eirēkasin.
For close to the gates there lay a sight beyond all description and tragic report: human flesh devoured not in one place but scattered everywhere. Some said they had seen limbs and whole pieces of flesh and parts of entrails even inside the gates.
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Summary: Remains lay scattered by the gates and even inside the city.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.11 (Dindorf 4:404; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.12Dindorf 4:404–405
ἐφʼ οἷς πλείσταις ἡμέραις ἐπιτελουμένοις τοιοῦτόν τι παράδοξον συμβαίνει. αἰθρία ἦν καὶ λαμπρὸς ἀὴρ καὶ τοῦ περιέχοντος κατάστασις εὐδιεινοτάτη. εἶτα ἀθρόως τῶν ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν κιόνων, οἱ τὰς δημοσίας ὑπήρειδον στοὰς, δακρύων τινὰ τρόπον οἱ πλείους σταλαγμοὺς ἀπέσταζον, ἀγοραί τε καὶ πλατεῖαι, μηδεμιᾶς ψεκάδος ἐξ ἀέρος γεγενημένης, οὐκ οἶδʼ ὁπόθεν ὕδατι ῥανθεῖσαι καθυγραίνοντο, ὡς αὐτίκα διαθρυληθῆναι εἰς πάντας δακρῦσαι τὴν γῆν ἀρρήτῳ λόγῳ, τὴν τῶν τότε πραχθέντων ἀνοσιουργίαν μὴ φέρουσαν, εἰς ἔλεγχόν τε φύσεως ἀτέγκτου καὶ ἀσυμπαθοῦς ἀνθρώπων λίθους καὶ τὴν ἄψυχον ὕλην ἐπικλαῦσαι τοῖς γεγενημένοις.
ephʼ hois pleistais hēmerais epiteloumenois toiouton ti paradoxon symbainei. aithria ēn kai lampros aēr kai tou periechontos katastasis eudieinotatē. eita athroōs tōn ana tēn polin kionōn, hoi tas dēmosias hypēreidon stoas, dakryōn tina tropon hoi pleious stalagmous apestazon, agorai te kai plateiai, mēdemias psekados ex aeros gegenēmenēs, ouk oidʼ hopothen hydati rhantheisai kathygrainonto, hōs autika diathrylēthēnai eis pantas dakrysai tēn gēn arrētǭ logǭ, tēn tōn tote prachthentōn anosiourgian mē pherousan, eis elenchon te physeōs atenktou kai asympathous anthrōpōn lithous kai tēn apsychon hylēn epiklausai tois gegenēmenois.
When this had gone on for very many days, a marvellous thing happened. The sky was clear, the air bright, and the state of the atmosphere most serene. Then suddenly most of the columns throughout the city that supported the public porticoes let fall drops like tears, and the market-places and streets, though no drop of rain had come from the air, became wet, sprinkled with water from I know not where; so that at once it was reported to all that the earth had wept in an inexpressible way, not bearing the impiety of what was then done, and that, to rebuke the hard and unfeeling nature of human beings, stones and lifeless matter had wept over what had happened.
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Summary: On a clear day the city's columns dripped and the streets grew wet, as if the earth wept at the outrage.
Topics: Miracles
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.12 (Dindorf 4:404–405; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.13Dindorf 4:405
λῆρος ἴσως καὶ μῦθος εὖ οἶδʼ ὅτι δόξειεν εἶναι τὸ ῥῆμα τοῖς μεθʼ ἡμᾶς, ἀλλʼ οὐχ οἷσπερ ὁ καιρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπιστώσατο.
lēros isōs kai mythos eu oidʼ hoti doxeien einai to rhēma tois methʼ hēmas, allʼ ouch hoisper ho kairos tēn alētheian epistōsato.
To those after us the account may well seem nonsense and fable, I know; but not to those to whom the time itself confirmed its truth.
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Summary: Eusebius admits later readers may doubt the wonder, but contemporaries knew it true.
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 9.13 (Dindorf 4:405; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/9-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 10
10.1Dindorf 4:405
Τοῦ δʼ ἐπιόντος μηνὸς Ἀπελλαίου τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ, πρὸ δεκαεννέα Καλανδῶν Ἰαννουαρίων λέγοιτʼ ἂν, πάλιν αὖ τῶν ἀπʼ Αἰγύπτου τινὲς πρὸς τῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς πύλαις τοὺς παριόντας διερευνωμένων συλληφθέντες ἐτύγχανον δʼ οὗτοι θεραπείας ἕνεκα τῶν κατὰ Κιλικίαν ὁμολογητῶν στειλάμενοι) οἱ μὲν τὴν αὐτὴν οἷς ἔτυχον ἐξυπηρετησόμενοι κατεδέξαντο ψῆφον, ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ πόδας ἀχρειωθέντες, τρεῖς δʼ αὐτῶν ἐν Ἀσκάλωνι, ἔνθα καὶ ἐνέσχηντο, θαυμασίαν τε παράστασιν ἀνδρείας παρεσχημένοι διάφορον ἀπηνέγκαντο μαρτυρίου τέλος, ὁ μέν τις αὐτῶν πυρὶ παραδοθεὶς Ἄρης ὄνομα, οἱ δὲ τὰς κεφαλὰς ἀποτμηθέντες, Πρόμος καὶ Ἠλίας τούτοις ἢν ἡ προσηγορία.
Tou dʼ epiontos mēnos Apellaiou tessareskaidekatę̄, pro dekaennea Kalandōn Iannouariōn legoitʼ an, palin au tōn apʼ Aigyptou tines pros tōn epi tais pylais tous pariontas diereunōmenōn syllēphthentes etynchanon dʼ houtoi therapeias heneka tōn kata Kilikian homologētōn steilamenoi) hoi men tēn autēn hois etychon exypēretēsomenoi katedexanto psēphon, ophthalmous kai podas achreiōthentes, treis dʼ autōn en Askalōni, entha kai eneschēnto, thaumasian te parastasin andreias pareschēmenoi diaphoron apēnenkanto martyriou telos, ho men tis autōn pyri paradotheis Arēs onoma, hoi de tas kephalas apotmēthentes, Promos kai Ēlias toutois ēn hē prosēgoria.
On the fourteenth of the following month, Apellaeus, which would be called the nineteenth day before the Kalends of January, again some of those from Egypt were arrested by those who searched passers-by at the gates (they had been sent to minister to the confessors in Cilicia). Some received the same sentence as those whom they had come to serve, being disabled in eyes and feet; but three of them, at Ascalon, where they were held, showed a wonderful display of courage and won different ends of martyrdom: one of them, named Ares, was given over to the fire, while the others, whose names were Promus and Elias, were beheaded.
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Summary: Egyptian Christians on their way to help the Cilician confessors were arrested; some were maimed, and Ares, Promus and Elias were martyred at Ascalon.
- 14 December 308. The name Promus is as printed (other witnesses: Probus). The digital text lacks the opening parenthesis before 'they had been sent'.
Topics: Martyrdom, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 10.1 (Dindorf 4:405; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.2Dindorf 4:405
Αὐδυναίου δὲ μηνὸς ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ καὶ δεκάτῃ, εἴη δʼ ἂν ἡ πρὸ τριῶν Εἰδῶν Ἰαννουαρίων, ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς Καισαρείας Πέτρος ἀσκητὴς, ὁ καὶ Ἀψέλαμος, ἀπὸ Ἀνέας κώμης τῶν ὅρων Ἐλευθεροπόλεως, διὰ πυρὸς, οἶα χρυσὸς ἀκραιφνέστατος, τῆς εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ πίστεως εὐγενεῖ λογισμῷ τὴν δοκιμὴν ἀποδέδωκε, μυρία μὲν λιπαροῦντας τόν τε δικαστὴν καὶ τοὺς ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν, ὡς ἂν ἐλεήσειέ τε αὐτὸν καὶ τῆς ἰδίας φείσαιτο νεότητός τε καὶ ἀκμῆς, ὑπεριδὼν, προτιμήσας δʼ ἁπάντων καὶ ζωῆς αὐτῆς τὴν ἐπὶ τὸν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν ἐλπίδα.
Audynaiou de mēnos hēmerą mią kai dekatę̄, eiē dʼ an hē pro triōn Eidōn Iannouariōn, epi tēs autēs Kaisareias Petros askētēs, ho kai Apselamos, apo Aneas kōmēs tōn horōn Eleutheropoleōs, dia pyros, oia chrysos akraiphnestatos, tēs eis ton Christon tou theou pisteōs eugenei logismǭ tēn dokimēn apodedōke, myria men liparountas ton te dikastēn kai tous amphʼ auton, hōs an eleēseie te auton kai tēs idias pheisaito neotētos te kai akmēs, hyperidōn, protimēsas dʼ hapantōn kai zōēs autēs tēn epi ton tōn holōn theon elpida.
On the eleventh day of the month Audynaeus, which would be the third day before the Ides of January, in the same Caesarea, Peter the ascetic, also called Apselamus, from the village of Anea in the territory of Eleutheropolis, gave proof through fire, like purest gold, of his faith in the Christ of God with a noble mind. He disregarded the countless entreaties of the judge and those about him to have pity on himself and spare his own youth and vigour, and preferred to all things, even to life itself, his hope in the God of the universe.
1 Pet 1:7 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: Peter Apselamus, an ascetic, refused pleas to spare his youth and was burned on 11 January.
- The image of gold tried by fire recalls 1 Pet 1:7. 11 January 309.
Topics: Martyrdom, Asceticism
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 10.2 (Dindorf 4:405; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.3Dindorf 4:405–406
τούτῳ δὲ τῆς κατὰ Μαρκίωνα πλάνης ἐπίσκοπός τις εἶναι δοκῶν Ἀσκληπιὸς, ζήλῳ μὲν, ὡς ᾤετο, εὐσεβείας, ἀλλʼ οὔτι γε τῆς κατʼ ἐπίγνωσιν, ὅμως δʼ οὖν μιᾷ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ πυρᾷ τὸν βίον συνεξελήλυθεν. ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ταύτῃ.
toutǭ de tēs kata Markiōna planēs episkopos tis einai dokōn Asklēpios, zēlǭ men, hōs ǭeto, eusebeias, allʼ outi ge tēs katʼ epignōsin, homōs dʼ oun mią kai tę̄ autę̄ pyrą ton bion synexelēlythen. alla tauta men tautę̄.
With him a certain Asclepius, reputed to be a bishop of the error of Marcion, moved by zeal for godliness, as he thought, though not according to knowledge, nevertheless departed this life on one and the same pyre. But so much for these things.
Rom 10:2 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Asclepius, a Marcionite bishop, was burned on the same pyre.
- 'Zeal ... not according to knowledge' echoes Rom 10:2. Eusebius records the Marcionite's death as he wrote it.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark in the digital text): μιᾷ· → μιᾷ.
Topics: Martyrdom, Heresy, Marcionism
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 10.3 (Dindorf 4:405–406; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/10-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 11
11.1Dindorf 4:406
Καιρὸς δῆτα καλεῖ τὸ μέγα καὶ περιβόητον ἀνιστορῆσαι θέατρον τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸ τριπόθητον ἔμοιγε ὄνομα Παμφίλου τελειωθέντων· δώδεκα δʼ ἦσαν οἱ πάντες, προφητικοῦ τινος ἢ καὶ ἀποστολικοῦ χαρίσματος καὶ ἀριθμοῦ κατηξιωμένοι.
Kairos dēta kalei to mega kai periboēton anistorēsai theatron tōn amphi to tripothēton emoige onoma Pamphilou teleiōthentōn; dōdeka dʼ ēsan hoi pantes, prophētikou tinos ē kai apostolikou charismatos kai arithmou katēxiōmenoi.
The time now calls us to relate the great and famous spectacle of those who were perfected with Pamphilus, a name thrice dear to me. They were twelve in all, counted worthy of a prophetic, or rather apostolic, grace and number.
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Summary: Eusebius introduces the martyrdom of Pamphilus and his eleven companions, twelve like the apostles.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.1 (Dindorf 4:406; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.2Dindorf 4:406
ὧν ὁ κορυφαῖος καὶ τῇ τοῦ κατὰ Καισάρειαν πρεσβείου τιμῇ κεκοσμημένος μόνος ἐτύγχανεν ὁ Πάμφιλος, ἀνὴρ καὶ παρʼ ὅλον αὐτοῦ τὸν βίον πάσῃ διαπρέψας ἀρετῇ, ἀποτάξει καὶ καταφρονήσει βίου, τῇ τῆς οὐσίας εἰς ἐνδεεῖς κοινωνίᾳ, κοσμικῶν ἐλπίδων ὀλιγωρίᾳ, φιλοσόφῳ πολιτείᾳ καὶ ἀσκήσει· μάλιστα δὲ παρὰ τοὺς καθʼ ἡμᾶς πάντας διέπρεπε τῇ περὶ τὰ θεῖα λόγια γνησιωτάτῃ σπουδῇ, ἀτρύτῳ τε περὶ ἃ προύθετο φιλοπονίᾳ, καὶ τῇ περὶ τοὺς προσήκοντας καὶ πάντας τοὺς αὐτῷ πλησιάζοντας ὠφελείᾳ·
hōn ho koryphaios kai tę̄ tou kata Kaisareian presbeiou timę̄ kekosmēmenos monos etynchanen ho Pamphilos, anēr kai parʼ holon autou ton bion pasę̄ diaprepsas aretę̄, apotaxei kai kataphronēsei biou, tę̄ tēs ousias eis endeeis koinōnią, kosmikōn elpidōn oligōrią, philosophǭ politeią kai askēsei; malista de para tous kathʼ hēmas pantas dieprepe tę̄ peri ta theia logia gnēsiōtatę̄ spoudę̄, atrytǭ te peri ha proutheto philoponią, kai tę̄ peri tous prosēkontas kai pantas tous autǭ plēsiazontas ōpheleią;
Their leader, and the only one honoured with the rank of presbyter at Caesarea, was Pamphilus, a man who throughout his whole life excelled in every virtue: in renunciation and contempt of the world, in sharing his property with the needy, in disregard of worldly hopes, in a philosophic life and discipline. But above all of our time he excelled in a most genuine zeal for the divine oracles, in tireless industry in what he undertook, and in helpfulness to his relatives and to all who came near him.
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Summary: Pamphilus, presbyter of Caesarea, excelled in renunciation, charity, and above all devotion to the Scriptures.
Topics: Martyrdom, Church office, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.2 (Dindorf 4:406; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.3Dindorf 4:406
οὗ τὰ λοιπὰ τῆς ἀρετῆς κατορθώματα, μακροτέρας ὄντα διηγήσεως, ἐπʼ ἰδίας τῆς τοῦ κατʼ αὐτὸν ὑποθέσεως βίου γραφῆς ἐν τρισὶν ἤδη πρότερον ὑπομνήμασι παραδεδώκαμεν. ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐπʼ ἐκεῖνα τοὺς φιλοτίμως καὶ ταῦτα εἰδέναι ἔχοντας ἀναπέμψαντες τὰ νῦν ἐχώμεθα τῆς κατὰ τοὺς μάρτυρας ἀκολουθίας.
hou ta loipa tēs aretēs katorthōmata, makroteras onta diēgēseōs, epʼ idias tēs tou katʼ auton hypotheseōs biou graphēs en trisin ēdē proteron hypomnēmasi paradedōkamen. alla gar epʼ ekeina tous philotimōs kai tauta eidenai echontas anapempsantes ta nyn echōmetha tēs kata tous martyras akolouthias.
The rest of his virtuous achievements, which need a longer account, we have already set out earlier in a separate work on the subject of his life, in three books. Referring those who are eager to know them to that work, let us now keep to the sequence concerning the martyrs.
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Summary: Eusebius refers readers to his three-book Life of Pamphilus.
- Eusebius's Life of Pamphilus is lost.
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.3 (Dindorf 4:406; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.4Dindorf 4:406
δεύτερος μετὰ Πάμφιλον ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα παρῄει ἱεροπρεπεῖ πολιᾷ τετιμημένος Οὐάλης, τῶν ἀπὸ Αἰλίας διάκονος, αὐτῇ προσόψει σεμνότατος πρεσβύτης, τῶν θείων γραφῶν εἰ καί τις ἄλλος ἐπιστήμων· τοσαύτας γέ τοι μνήμας αὐτῶν ἐνεστέρνιστο ὡς μὴ ἐνδεῖν τῆς ἀπὸ γραμμάτων ἐντεύξεως, τῆς εἴ ποτε λάβοι γραφῆς οἵασδʼ οὖν ἀπομνημονεῦσαι διεξόδους.
deuteros meta Pamphilon epi ton agōna parę̄ei hieroprepei polią tetimēmenos Oualēs, tōn apo Ailias diakonos, autę̄ prosopsei semnotatos presbytēs, tōn theiōn graphōn ei kai tis allos epistēmōn; tosautas ge toi mnēmas autōn enesternisto hōs mē endein tēs apo grammatōn enteuxeōs, tēs ei pote laboi graphēs hoiasdʼ oun apomnēmoneusai diexodous.
Second after Pamphilus came to the contest Valens, honoured with a venerable grey head, a deacon of Aelia, an old man most dignified in appearance, learned in the divine Scriptures if anyone was. He had stored up so much of them in memory that he did not need to consult books in order to recite from memory long passages of any part of Scripture he took up.
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Summary: Valens, an aged deacon of Jerusalem (Aelia), knew the Scriptures by heart.
- Aelia (Aelia Capitolina) is Jerusalem.
Topics: Martyrdom, Church office, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.4 (Dindorf 4:406; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.5Dindorf 4:406–407
τρίτος ὁ θερμουργότατος καὶ τῷ πνεύματι ζέων ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰαμνιτῶν πόλεως ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐγνωρίζετο Παῦλος, πρὸ τοῦ μαρτυρίου διὰ καυτήρων ὑπομονῆς τὸν τῆς ὁμολογίας διαθλήσας ἀγῶνα. τούτοις ἐπὶ τῆς εἱρκτῆς ἐτῶν δυεῖν ὅλων χρόνον κατατρίψασιν ὑπόθεσις τοῦ μαρτυρίου γίνεται Αἰγυπτίων αὖθις ἀδελφῶν ἔφοδος, τῶν καὶ σὺν αὐτοῖς τελειωθέντων.
tritos ho thermourgotatos kai tǭ pneumati zeōn apo tēs Iamnitōn poleōs en autois egnōrizeto Paulos, pro tou martyriou dia kautērōn hypomonēs ton tēs homologias diathlēsas agōna. toutois epi tēs heirktēs etōn dyein holōn chronon katatripsasin hypothesis tou martyriou ginetai Aigyptiōn authis adelphōn ephodos, tōn kai syn autois teleiōthentōn.
Third was known among them Paul from the city of Jamnia, most fervent in action and burning in spirit, who before his martyrdom had fought out the contest of confession through endurance of branding irons. After these men had spent two whole years in prison, the occasion of their martyrdom was the arrival again of Egyptian brothers, who were also perfected with them.
Rom 12:11 (echo, medium confidence)
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Summary: Paul of Jamnia was the third; after two years' imprisonment the arrival of Egyptian brothers led to their martyrdom.
- 'Burning in spirit' echoes Rom 12:11.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (dittography in the digital text; line-end hyphenation rejoined): ἐγνω- ρίζετο → ἐγνωρίζετο; Αἰγυπτίων γυπτίων → Αἰγυπτίων.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.5 (Dindorf 4:406–407; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.6Dindorf 4:407
τοὺς κατὰ Κιλικίαν οὗτοι μέχρι τῶν αὐτόθι μετάλλων ὁμολογητὰς προπέμψαντες ἐπαλινόστουν ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα· ὁμοίως δῆτα καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸς αὐταῖς εἰσόδοις τῶν κατὰ Καισάρειαν πυλῶν, τίνες τε εἶεν καὶ ὁπόθεν ἀφικνούμενοι πρὸς τῶν φυλάκων βάρβαροι δέ τινες ὑπῆρχον οὗτοι τὸν τρόπον) ἀνερωτηθέντες, καὶ μηδὲν τῆς ἀληθείας ἀποκρυψάμενοι, οἷα κακοῦργοι ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ ληφθέντες συνείχοντο· πέντε δʼ ἦσαν οὗτοι τὸν
tous kata Kilikian houtoi mechri tōn autothi metallōn homologētas propempsantes epalinostoun epi ta oikeia; homoiōs dēta kai autoi pros autais eisodois tōn kata Kaisareian pylōn, tines te eien kai hopothen aphiknoumenoi pros tōn phylakōn barbaroi de tines hypērchon houtoi ton tropon) anerōtēthentes, kai mēden tēs alētheias apokrypsamenoi, hoia kakourgoi epʼ autophōrǭ lēphthentes syneichonto; pente dʼ ēsan houtoi ton
These had escorted the confessors in Cilicia as far as the mines there and were returning home. In the same way as the others, at the very entrance of the gates of Caesarea, they were asked by the guards (who were barbarous men in character) who they were and where they had come from; and hiding nothing of the truth, they were held as criminals caught in the act. They were five in number.
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Summary: Five Egyptians returning from Cilicia confessed at the gates of Caesarea and were arrested.
- The digital text breaks off after τὸν; 'in number' (ἀριθμόν) is supplied. It also lacks the opening parenthesis before 'who were'.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word rejoined): λη φθέντες → ληφθέντες.
Topics: Martyrdom, Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.6 (Dindorf 4:407; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.7Dindorf 4:407
οἱ καὶ προσαχθέντες τῷ τυράννῳ, κἀπὶ τούτου παρρησιασάμενοι, αὐτίκα μὲν καθείργνυνται δεσμωτηρίῳ· τῇ δʼ ἐξῆς Περιτίου μηνὸς ἡμέρᾳ ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ Μαρτίου κατὰ Ῥωμαίους ἡ πρὸ δεκατεσσάρων Καλανδῶν) ἐκ προστάγματος τούτους δὴ αὐτοὺς ἅμα τοῖς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πάμφιλον δεδηλωμένοις τῷ δικαστῇ προσάγουσιν.
hoi kai prosachthentes tǭ tyrannǭ, kapi toutou parrēsiasamenoi, autika men katheirgnyntai desmōtēriǭ; tę̄ dʼ exēs Peritiou mēnos hēmerą hekkaidekatę̄ Martiou kata Rhōmaious hē pro dekatessarōn Kalandōn) ek prostagmatos toutous dē autous hama tois amphi ton Pamphilon dedēlōmenois tǭ dikastę̄ prosagousin.
Brought before the tyrant and speaking boldly before him too, they were at once shut up in prison. On the next day, the sixteenth of the month Peritius, which according to the Romans is the fourteenth day before the Kalends of March, by order they were brought before the judge, these same men together with those around Pamphilus already mentioned.
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Summary: Imprisoned, the Egyptians were brought before the judge with Pamphilus's group on 16 February.
- The digital text places 'March' (Μαρτίου) before 'according to the Romans'; translated in its natural place. 16 February 310.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.7 (Dindorf 4:407; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.8Dindorf 4:407–408
ὃς καὶ πρῶτον τῆς τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀκαταμαχήτου ἐνστάσεως παντοίοις βασάνων εἴδεσι, μηχανῶν τε ξένων καὶ ποικίλων ἐπινοίαις πεῖραν λαμβάνει. τὸν μὲν προήγορον ἁπάντων τούτοις ἐγγυμνάσας τοῖς ἄθλοις τίς εἴη πρῶτον ἠρώτα, εἶτʼ ἀντὶ τοῦ κυρίου ὀνόματος προφητικόν τι ἐπακούσας — τοῦτο δὲ πρὸς αὐτῶν ἐγίνετο, ἀντὶ τῶν πατρόθεν αὐτοῖς ἐπιπεφημισμένων εἰδωλικῶν ὄντων, εἰ τύχοι, μετατεθεικότων ἑαυτοῖς τὰς προσηγορίας· Ἠλίαν γοῦν καὶ Ἱερεμίαν καὶ Ἠσαίαν τε καὶ Σαμουὴλ καὶ Δανιὴλ ἤκουες ἂν αὐτῶν ἐπιγραφομένων, καὶ τὸν ἐν κρυπτῷ Ἰουδαῖον γνήσιόν τε καὶ εἰλικρινῶς Ἰσραὴλ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ μόνον ἔργοις, ἀλλὰ φωναῖς κυρίως ἐκφερομέναις ἐπιδεικνυμένων — τοιοῦτόν τι οὖν πρὸς τοῦ μάρτυρος ὄνομα ἐπακούσας ὁ Φιρμιλλιανὸς, οὐ μὴν ἐπιστήσας τῇ τοῦ ῥήματος δυνάμει, δεύτερον ἥτις αὐτοῦ πατρὶς γένοιτο ἠρώτα.
hos kai prōton tēs tōn Aigyptiōn akatamachētou enstaseōs pantoiois basanōn eidesi, mēchanōn te xenōn kai poikilōn epinoiais peiran lambanei. ton men proēgoron hapantōn toutois engymnasas tois athlois tis eiē prōton ērōta, eitʼ anti tou kyriou onomatos prophētikon ti epakousas — touto de pros autōn egineto, anti tōn patrothen autois epipephēmismenōn eidōlikōn ontōn, ei tychoi, metatetheikotōn heautois tas prosēgorias; Ēlian goun kai Hieremian kai Ēsaian te kai Samouēl kai Daniēl ēkoues an autōn epigraphomenōn, kai ton en kryptǭ Ioudaion gnēsion te kai eilikrinōs Israēl tou theou ou monon ergois, alla phōnais kyriōs ekpheromenais epideiknymenōn — toiouton ti oun pros tou martyros onoma epakousas ho Phirmillianos, ou mēn epistēsas tę̄ tou rhēmatos dynamei, deuteron hētis autou patris genoito ērōta.
He first made trial of the invincible firmness of the Egyptians with every kind of torture and the devices of strange and various machines. After exercising their spokesman in these contests, he first asked him who he was; and then, hearing a prophet's name instead of his own proper name (this was done by them, since in place of the idolatrous names given them by their fathers they had, it seems, changed their names for themselves; you would hear them calling themselves Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel and Daniel, showing themselves the Jew inwardly and the genuine and pure Israel of God not only by deeds but by names properly pronounced), Firmilian, then, hearing some such name from the martyr, but not attending to the meaning of the word, asked him next what his homeland was.
Rom 2:29 (allusion, high confidence) · Gal 6:16 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: The Egyptians' spokesman gave a prophet's name, as they had all taken biblical names; Firmilian then asked his homeland.
- 'The Jew inwardly' echoes Rom 2:29; 'the Israel of God', Gal 6:16.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in accent; split word rejoined): εἰδῶ λικῶν → εἰδωλικῶν; οὑν → οὖν.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.8 (Dindorf 4:407–408; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.9Dindorf 4:408
ὁ δὲ συνῳδὸν τῇ προτέρᾳ δευτέραν ἀφίησι φωνὴν, Ἱερουσαλὴμ εἶναι λέγων τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδα, ἐκείνην δῆτα νοῶν περὶ ἧς εἴρηται τῷ Παύλῳ ‟ἡ δὲ ἄνω Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν, ἥτις ἐστὶν μήτηρ ἡμῶν.” καὶ “προσεληλύθατε Σιῶν ὄρει, καὶ πόλει θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ.”
ho de synǭdon tę̄ proterą deuteran aphiēsi phōnēn, Hierousalēm einai legōn tēn heautou patrida, ekeinēn dēta noōn peri hēs eirētai tǭ Paulǭ ‟hē de anō Hierousalēm eleuthera estin, hētis estin mētēr hēmōn.” kai “proselēlythate Siōn orei, kai polei theou zōntos, Hierousalēm epouraniǭ.”
He gave a second answer in keeping with the first, saying that Jerusalem was his homeland, meaning of course that city of which Paul said, "But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother," and, "You have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem."
Gal 4:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 12:22 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: He named Jerusalem as his homeland, meaning the heavenly Jerusalem of Paul.
- Quotations: Gal 4:26; Heb 12:22 (attributed to Paul, as Eusebius held).
Topics: Martyrdom, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.9 (Dindorf 4:408; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.10Dindorf 4:408
καὶ ὁ μὲν ταύτην ἐνόει, ὁ δʼ ἐπὶ χθόνα καὶ χαμαὶ ῥίψας τὴν διάνοιαν, ἥτις εἴη αὕτη καὶ ποῖ γῆς κειμένη, ἀκριβῶς ἐπολυπραγμόνει, εἶτα βασάνους ἐπῆγεν, ὡς ἂν τἀληθὲς ὁμολογοίη· ὁ δὲ στρεβλούμενος κατόπιν τὼ χεῖρε, καὶ τοῖν ποδοῖν μαγγάνοις τισὶ ξένοις διακλώμενος, τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν ἀπισχυρίζετο.
kai ho men tautēn enoei, ho dʼ epi chthona kai chamai rhipsas tēn dianoian, hētis eiē hautē kai poi gēs keimenē, akribōs epolypragmonei, eita basanous epēgen, hōs an talēthes homologoiē; ho de strebloumenos katopin tō cheire, kai toin podoin manganois tisi xenois diaklōmenos, talēthes eipein apischyrizeto.
He meant that city; but the judge, casting his thought down to the earth, inquired closely what this city was and where on earth it lay, and then applied tortures to make him confess the truth. But the man, with his hands wrenched behind his back and his feet crushed by some strange machines, insisted that he had spoken the truth.
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Summary: The judge, thinking of an earthly city, tortured him, but he insisted he had told the truth.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.10 (Dindorf 4:408; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.11Dindorf 4:408
εἶτα πάλιν πολλάκις ἐρομένου τίς εἴη καὶ ποῖ κειμένη ἣν δὴ φράζει πόλιν, μόνων εἶναι τῶν θεοσεβῶν ταύτην ἔλεγε πατρίδα· μὴ γὰρ ἑτέροις ἢ τούτοις μόνοις αὐτῆς μετεῖναι, κεῖσθαι δὲ πρὸς αὐταῖς ἀνατολαῖς καὶ πρὸς ἀνίσχοντι ἡλίῳ.
eita palin pollakis eromenou tis eiē kai poi keimenē hēn dē phrazei polin, monōn einai tōn theosebōn tautēn elege patrida; mē gar heterois ē toutois monois autēs meteinai, keisthai de pros autais anatolais kai pros anischonti hēliǭ.
Then, when he asked again many times what and where the city was of which he spoke, he said that it was the homeland of the godly alone; for no others but these alone have a share in it; and it lies toward the very east and the rising sun.
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Summary: He said it was the homeland of the godly alone, lying toward the sunrise.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.11 (Dindorf 4:408; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.12Dindorf 4:408–409
ὁ μὲν πάλιν διὰ τούτων κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον νοῦν ἐφιλοσόφει, μηδαμῶς τῶν ἐν κύκλῳ βασάνοις αὐτὸν αἰκιζομένων ἐπιστροφὴν ποιούμενος, ἄσαρκος δʼ ὥσπερ καὶ ἀσώματος οὐδʼ ἐπαίειν δοκῶν τῶν ἀλγηδόνων· ὁ δʼ ἀπορούμενος ἐσφάδαζεν, ἐχθρὰν καὶ Ῥωμαίοις πολεμίαν πάντως που συστήσεσθαι πόλιν Χριστιανοὺς οἰόμενος, πολύς τε ἦν ταύτην ἀνερευνῶν, καὶ τὴν δηλωθεῖσαν χώραν κατʼ ἀνατολὰς ἐξετάζων.
ho men palin dia toutōn kata ton idion noun ephilosophei, mēdamōs tōn en kyklǭ basanois auton aikizomenōn epistrophēn poioumenos, asarkos dʼ hōsper kai asōmatos oudʼ epaiein dokōn tōn algēdonōn; ho dʼ aporoumenos esphadazen, echthran kai Rhōmaiois polemian pantōs pou systēsesthai polin Christianous oiomenos, polys te ēn tautēn anereunōn, kai tēn dēlōtheisan chōran katʼ anatolas exetazōn.
Again he was philosophizing by these words according to his own meaning, paying no attention to those around him who were tormenting him with tortures, but, as though without flesh or body, he seemed not even to feel the pains. The judge, perplexed, grew restless, thinking that the Christians must surely be setting up a city hostile and at war with the Romans; and he was busy searching for it and inquiring about the region named toward the east.
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Summary: The martyr seemed not to feel pain, while the judge feared a Christian city hostile to Rome.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.12 (Dindorf 4:408–409; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.13Dindorf 4:409
ὡς δʼ ἐπὶ πλέον μάστιξι τὸν νεανίαν καταξήνας παντοίαις τε τιμωρησάμενος βασάνοις ἀπαράλλακτον τὴν ἔνστασιν τῶν πρότερον αὐτῷ ῥηθέντων ἐγίνωσκε, τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτω κατʼ αὐτοῦ κεφαλικὴν ἐκφέρει ψῆφον. τοσαύτην μὲν οὖν τὰ κατὰ τοῦτον δραματουργίαν εἰλήχει. καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς δὲ τοῖς παραπλησίοις ἄθλοις ἐγγυμνάσας τὸν ὅμοιον ἀπαλλάττει τρόπον.
hōs dʼ epi pleon mastixi ton neanian kataxēnas pantoiais te timōrēsamenos basanois aparallakton tēn enstasin tōn proteron autǭ rhēthentōn eginōske, tēn epi thanatō katʼ autou kephalikēn ekpherei psēphon. tosautēn men oun ta kata touton dramatourgian eilēchei. kai tous loipous de tois paraplēsiois athlois engymnasas ton homoion apallattei tropon.
When, after tearing the young man further with scourges and punishing him with every kind of torture, he found his firmness in what he had said before unchanged, he passed against him the capital sentence of death. Such was the drama played out in his case. And having exercised the others in similar contests, he dispatched them in the same manner.
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Summary: Finding him unshaken, the judge sentenced him and the other Egyptians to death.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.13 (Dindorf 4:409; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.14Dindorf 4:409
εἶτʼ ἀποκαμὼν, διαγνούς τε εἰς μάτην τιμωρεῖσθαι τοὺς ἄνδρας, ἐπιθυμίας κόρον λαβὼν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πάμφιλον μέτεισιν, ἀναδιδαχθείς τε ὡς ἤδη καὶ πρότερον διὰ βασάνων ἀμετάθετον ἐνεδείξαντο τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς πίστεως προθυμίαν, ἀνερωτήσας εἰ ἄρα εἰσέτι κἂν νῦν πειθαρχοῖεν, δεξάμενός τε αὐτὸ μόνον παρʼ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου τὴν τελευταίαν αὐτῶν τῆς κατὰ τὸ μαρτύριον ὁμολογίας φωνὴν, τὴν αὐτὴν τοῖς προτέροις ἐπάγει τιμωρίαν.
eitʼ apokamōn, diagnous te eis matēn timōreisthai tous andras, epithymias koron labōn epi tous amphi ton Pamphilon meteisin, anadidachtheis te hōs ēdē kai proteron dia basanōn ametatheton enedeixanto tēn hyper tēs pisteōs prothymian, anerōtēsas ei ara eiseti kan nyn peitharchoien, dexamenos te auto monon parʼ henos hekastou tēn teleutaian autōn tēs kata to martyrion homologias phōnēn, tēn autēn tois proterois epagei timōrian.
Then, worn out and recognizing that he was punishing the men in vain, having had his fill of his desire, he went on to Pamphilus and those with him. Informed that they had already shown before, through tortures, an unchangeable zeal for the faith, he asked whether even now they would obey; and receiving from each one only the final word of his confession in martyrdom, he inflicted on them the same punishment as on the former.
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Summary: Firmilian asked Pamphilus's group once more to obey, and on their confession condemned them likewise.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.14 (Dindorf 4:409; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.15Dindorf 4:409
τούτων ἐπὶ πέρας ἀχθέντων μειράκιον τῆς οἰκετικῆς ὑπάρχον τοῦ Παμφίλου θεραπείας, οἷα γνησίᾳ ἀνατροφῇ καὶ παιδείᾳ τοῦ τηλικούτου συνησκημένον ἀνδρὸς, ὡς ἔγνω τὴν κατὰ τοῦ δεσπότου ψῆφον, ἀπὸ μέσης τῆς πληθύος ἀναβοᾷ, γῇ τὰ σώματα παραδοθῆναι ἀξιῶν.
toutōn epi peras achthentōn meirakion tēs oiketikēs hyparchon tou Pamphilou therapeias, hoia gnēsią anatrophę̄ kai paideią tou tēlikoutou synēskēmenon andros, hōs egnō tēn kata tou despotou psēphon, apo mesēs tēs plēthyos anaboą, gę̄ ta sōmata paradothēnai axiōn.
When this had been carried through, a youth who belonged to Pamphilus's household servants, trained as he was by the genuine upbringing and instruction of so great a man, on learning of the sentence against his master, cried out from the middle of the crowd, asking that the bodies be given to the earth for burial.
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Summary: Porphyry, a young servant of Pamphilus, cried out asking for the martyrs' burial.
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- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in breathing and accent): οἶα → οἷα.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.15 (Dindorf 4:409; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.16Dindorf 4:409
ὁ δʼ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλὰ θὴρ καὶ εἴ τι θηρὸς ἀγριώτερον, δʼ μήτε τῷ τῆς ἡλικίας ἀπονείμας νέῳ συγγνώμην, αὐτὸ μόνον ὡς ἐρωτήσας ὁμολογοῦντα Χριστιανὸν ἔμαθεν, ὥσπερ ὑπό τινος τρωθεὶς βέλους, οἰδήσας τὸν θυμὸν, ὅλῃ δυνάμει τοῖς βασανισταῖς χρῆσθαι κατʼ αὐτοῦ προστάττει.
ho dʼ ouk anthrōpos, alla thēr kai ei ti thēros agriōteron, dʼ mēte tǭ tēs hēlikias aponeimas neǭ syngnōmēn, auto monon hōs erōtēsas homologounta Christianon emathen, hōsper hypo tinos trōtheis belous, oidēsas ton thymon, holę̄ dynamei tois basanistais chrēsthai katʼ autou prostattei.
But the judge, not a man but a beast, and if anything more savage than a beast, granting no pardon even to the youth of his age, as soon as he learned by questioning that he confessed himself a Christian, swelled with rage as though wounded by an arrow, and ordered the torturers to use all their strength against him.
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Summary: The judge, learning the youth was a Christian, ordered him tortured with full force.
- The digital text has a stray δʼ before μήτε; it is left untranslated.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.16 (Dindorf 4:409; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.17Dindorf 4:409–410
ὡς δʼ ἐπικελευομένου θύειν ἀνανεύοντα ἐώρα, οὐκέθʼ ὡς σάρκας ἀνθρώπου, ἀλλʼ ἤ λίθους ἢ ξύλα ἥ τι τῶν ἄλλων ἀψύχων, ἄχρις αὐτῶν ὀστέων καὶ τῶν ἐν βάθει καὶ ἐν μυχοῖς σπλάγχνων παραμόνως καταξαίνεσθαι κελεύει. εἰς μακρὸν δὲ τούτου γινομένου μάτην ἐγχειρεῖν διέγνω, ἀφώνου καὶ ἀνεπαισθήτου, μικροῦ δὲ δεῖν καὶ πάντη ἀψύχου τοῦ σώματος αὐτῷ ταῖς βασάνοις κατατριβομένου.
hōs dʼ epikeleuomenou thyein ananeuonta eōra, oukethʼ hōs sarkas anthrōpou, allʼ ē lithous ē xyla hē ti tōn allōn apsychōn, achris autōn osteōn kai tōn en bathei kai en mychois splanchnōn paramonōs kataxainesthai keleuei. eis makron de toutou ginomenou matēn encheirein diegnō, aphōnou kai anepaisthētou, mikrou de dein kai pantē apsychou tou sōmatos autǭ tais basanois katatribomenou.
When he saw him refusing to sacrifice at his command, he ordered him to be torn persistently, no longer as human flesh but as stones or wood or some other lifeless thing, to the very bones and the innermost recesses of the entrails. When this had gone on a long time, he recognized that he was trying in vain, since the young man's body, worn down by the tortures, was speechless and without feeling and all but wholly lifeless.
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Summary: Porphyry, refusing to sacrifice, was torn to the bone until he seemed lifeless.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.17 (Dindorf 4:409–410; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.18Dindorf 4:410
παράμονον δὲ τὸ ἀνηλεὲς καὶ ἀπάνθρωπον κεκτημένος, εὐθὺς ὡς εἶχε μακρῷ πυρὶ παραδοθῆναι αὐτὸν ἀποφαίνεται. καὶ οὗτος μὲν, πρὸ τῆς τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα δεσπότου τελειώσεως, ὕστατος ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα παρελθὼν, τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος ἀπαλλαγὴν προύλαβεν, ἔτι διαμελλόντων τῶν περὶ τοὺς προτέρους ἐσπουδακότων.
paramonon de to anēlees kai apanthrōpon kektēmenos, euthys hōs eiche makrǭ pyri paradothēnai auton apophainetai. kai houtos men, pro tēs tou kata sarka despotou teleiōseōs, hystatos epi ton agōna parelthōn, tēn apo tou sōmatos apallagēn proulaben, eti diamellontōn tōn peri tous proterous espoudakotōn.
But persisting in his pitiless and inhuman temper, he at once sentenced him, just as he was, to be given over to a slow fire. And this youth, though the last to come forward to the contest, obtained release from the body before the perfecting of his master according to the flesh, while those concerned with the earlier men were still delaying.
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Summary: Porphyry was condemned to a slow fire and died before his master Pamphilus.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.18 (Dindorf 4:410; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.19Dindorf 4:410
ἦν δὲ ἄρα τὸν Πορφύριον ἰδεῖν, ἱερονίκου διαθέσει πάμμαχον νενικηκότος, κεκονισμένον μὲν τὸ σῶμα, φαιδρὸν δὲ τὸ πρόσωπον, θαρσαλέῳ φρονήματι καὶ γαύρῳ μετὰ τοσαῦτα τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ βαδίζοντα, καὶ θείου πνεύματος ὡς ἀληθῶς ἔμπλεων, αὐτοῦ τε φιλοσόφῳ σχήματι μόνῳ τῷ περὶ αὐτὸν ἀναβολαίῳ ἐξωμίδος τρόπον ἠμφιεσμένον, νηφαλέῳ τε λογισμῷ περὶ ὧν ἐβούλετο τοῖς γνωρίμοις ἐντελλόμενον καὶ διανεύοντα, ἐπʼ αὐτῷ τε ἰκρίῳ τὸ πρόσωπον ἔτι φαιδρὸν διατηροῦντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἁφθείσης ἔξω ἀπὸ μακροῦ ἀποστήματος κύκλῳ περὶ αὐτὸν τῆς πυρᾶς, ἐνθένδε κἀκεῖθεν ἀφαρπάζοντα τῷ στόματι τὴν φλόγα, γενναιότατά τε εἰς ἐσχάτην ἀναπνοὴν ἐγκαρτεροῦντα τῇ σιωπῇ, μετὰ μίαν τε, ἣν ἅμα καθαψαμένης αὐτοῦ τῆς φλογὸς ἀπέρρηξε, φωνὴν, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ Ἰησοῦν βοηθὸν ἐπιβοώμενος. τοιοῦτος καὶ ὁ Πορφυρίου ἆθλος.
ēn de ara ton Porphyrion idein, hieronikou diathesei pammachon nenikēkotos, kekonismenon men to sōma, phaidron de to prosōpon, tharsaleǭ phronēmati kai gaurǭ meta tosauta tēn epi thanatǭ badizonta, kai theiou pneumatos hōs alēthōs empleōn, autou te philosophǭ schēmati monǭ tǭ peri auton anabolaiǭ exōmidos tropon ēmphiesmenon, nēphaleǭ te logismǭ peri hōn ebouleto tois gnōrimois entellomenon kai dianeuonta, epʼ autǭ te ikriǭ to prosōpon eti phaidron diatērounta, alla kai haphtheisēs exō apo makrou apostēmatos kyklǭ peri auton tēs pyras, enthende kakeithen apharpazonta tǭ stomati tēn phloga, gennaiotata te eis eschatēn anapnoēn enkarterounta tę̄ siōpę̄, meta mian te, hēn hama kathapsamenēs autou tēs phlogos aperrēxe, phōnēn, ton huion tou theou Iēsoun boēthon epiboōmenos. toioutos kai ho Porphyriou athlos.
One could see Porphyry, in the bearing of a victor at the sacred games who has won every kind of contest, his body covered with dust but his face radiant, walking to his death after so much with a bold and exultant spirit, truly full of the divine Spirit, clothed in the philosopher's garb alone, his cloak thrown about him like a shoulder-wrap, with a sober mind giving instructions and signs to his friends about what he wished, keeping his face still radiant on the very stake. And when the pyre was lit around him at a great distance, he snatched the flame into his mouth from this side and that, and endured most nobly in silence to his last breath, after the one cry he uttered when the flame first touched him, calling on Jesus the Son of God as his helper. Such was the contest of Porphyry.
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Summary: Porphyry went joyfully to the pyre and died in silence after calling on Jesus the Son of God.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word and lost accent in the digital text): πάμ μαχον νενικηκοτος → πάμμαχον νενικηκότος.
Topics: Martyrdom, Christology
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.19 (Dindorf 4:410; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.20Dindorf 4:410–411
τῆς δὲ κατʼ αὐτὸν τελειώσεως ἄγγελος τῷ Παμφίλῳ γενόμενος Σέλευκος, τῶν ἀπὸ στρατείας τις ὁμολογητὴς, οἶα τηλικαύτης ἀγγελίας διάκονος, τοῦ σὺν αὐτοῖς παραχρῆμα κλήρου καταξιοῦται. αὐτίκα γάρ τοι αὐτὸν διαγγείλαντα τὸ τοῦ Πορφυρίου τέλος, τῶν τε μαρτύρων ἕνα δή τινα φιλήματι προσειπόντα, ἐπιλαβόμενοι στρατιῶταί τινες ἄγουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν ἡγεμόνα. ὁ δὲ ὥσπερ ἐπισπέρχων αὐτὸν τῷ προτέρῳ συναπόδημον τῆς εἰς οὐρανοὺς γενέσθαι πορείας, αὐτίκα κεφαλικῇ τιμωρίᾳ κολασθῆναι προστάττει.
tēs de katʼ auton teleiōseōs angelos tǭ Pamphilǭ genomenos Seleukos, tōn apo strateias tis homologētēs, oia tēlikautēs angelias diakonos, tou syn autois parachrēma klērou kataxioutai. autika gar toi auton diangeilanta to tou Porphyriou telos, tōn te martyrōn hena dē tina philēmati proseiponta, epilabomenoi stratiōtai tines agousin epi ton hēgemona. ho de hōsper episperchōn auton tǭ proterǭ synapodēmon tēs eis ouranous genesthai poreias, autika kephalikę̄ timōrią kolasthēnai prostattei.
The messenger of his perfecting to Pamphilus was Seleucus, one of the confessors from the army; and as the servant of such a message he was at once counted worthy of the same lot with them. For as soon as he had announced the end of Porphyry and greeted one of the martyrs with a kiss, some soldiers seized him and led him to the governor. And he, as though hurrying him to become a fellow-traveller with the former on the journey to heaven, at once ordered him to be punished with death.
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Summary: Seleucus, a former soldier, reported Porphyry's death to Pamphilus, kissed a martyr, and was at once beheaded.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.20 (Dindorf 4:410–411; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.21Dindorf 4:411
οὗτος ἦν μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς Καππαδοκῶν γῆς, τῆς δʼ ἐν στρατείαις ἐπιλέκτου νεολαίας, καὶ τῶν ἐν Ῥωμαϊκοῖς ἀξιώμασιν οὐ μικρᾶς τιμῆς ἐπειλημμένος· ἡλικίᾳ τε γὰρ καὶ ῥώμῃ σώματος, μεγέθει τε καὶ ἰσχύι· παρὰ πλεῖστον ὅσον τοὺς συστρατιώτας ἐπλεονέκτει, ὡς καὶ τὴν πρόσοψιν αὐτῷ περιβόητον τοῖς πᾶσιν εἶναι, καὶ τὸ πᾶν εἶδος ἀξιάγαστον, μεγέθους ἕνεκα καὶ εὐμορφίας.
houtos ēn men apo tēs Kappadokōn gēs, tēs dʼ en strateiais epilektou neolaias, kai tōn en Rhōmaïkois axiōmasin ou mikras timēs epeilēmmenos; hēlikią te gar kai rhōmę̄ sōmatos, megethei te kai ischui; para pleiston hoson tous systratiōtas epleonektei, hōs kai tēn prosopsin autǭ periboēton tois pasin einai, kai to pan eidos axiagaston, megethous heneka kai eumorphias.
He was from the land of Cappadocia, of the picked young men in military service, and had attained no small honour among Roman ranks; for in age and bodily strength, in size and might, he far surpassed his fellow soldiers, so that his appearance was famous among all and his whole form admirable for its stature and beauty.
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Summary: Seleucus was a Cappadocian soldier of outstanding size and strength.
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.21 (Dindorf 4:411; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.22Dindorf 4:411
κατʼ ἀρχὰς μὲν οὖν τοῦ διωγμοῦ διὰ μαστίγων ὑπομονῆς τοῖς κατὰ τὴν ὁμολογίαν διαπρέψας ἀγῶσι, μετὰ δὲ τὴν τῆς στρατείας ἀπαλλαγὴν ζηλωτὴν ἑαυτὸν καταστήσας τῶν τῆς θεοσεβείας ἀσκητῶν, ὀρφανῶν ἐρήμων καὶ χηρῶν ἀπεριστάτων, τῶν τε ἐν πενίαις καὶ ἀσθενείαις ἀπερριμμένων ἐπίσκοπος ὥσπερ καὶ ἐπίκουρος, πατρὸς καὶ κηδεμόνος δίκην, ἀναπέφανται, ὅθεν δὴ εἰκότʼ ὡς πρὸς τοῦ τοῖς τοιοῖσδε μᾶλλον τῶν διὰ καπνοῦ καὶ αἵματος θυσιῶν χαίροντος θεοῦ τῆς κατὰ τὸ μαρτύριον παραδόξου κλήσεως ἠξιώθη.
katʼ archas men oun tou diōgmou dia mastigōn hypomonēs tois kata tēn homologian diaprepsas agōsi, meta de tēn tēs strateias apallagēn zēlōtēn heauton katastēsas tōn tēs theosebeias askētōn, orphanōn erēmōn kai chērōn aperistatōn, tōn te en peniais kai astheneiais aperrimmenōn episkopos hōsper kai epikouros, patros kai kēdemonos dikēn, anapephantai, hothen dē eikotʼ hōs pros tou tois toioisde mallon tōn dia kapnou kai haimatos thysiōn chairontos theou tēs kata to martyrion paradoxou klēseōs ēxiōthē.
At the beginning of the persecution he had distinguished himself in the contests of confession by enduring scourging; and after his release from military service he made himself an imitator of the ascetics of godliness, and was revealed as overseer and helper, like a father and guardian, of destitute orphans, widows without support, and those cast aside in poverty and sickness. Therefore, fittingly, he was counted worthy of the extraordinary call to martyrdom by God, who rejoices in such deeds more than in sacrifices offered with smoke and blood.
Hos 6:6 (echo, low confidence) · Heb 13:16 (echo, low confidence)
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Summary: After leaving the army Seleucus lived as an ascetic caring for orphans, widows, the poor and sick.
- 'Overseer' renders ἐπίσκοπος in its general sense; Seleucus was not a bishop. God's delight in mercy rather than sacrifice echoes Hos 6:6 and Heb 13:16.
Topics: Martyrdom, Ethics, Almsgiving and care for the poor
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.22 (Dindorf 4:411; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.23Dindorf 4:411
δέκατος οὗτος ἀθλητὴς ἐπὶ τοῖς δεδηλωμένοις ἐν μιᾷ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ τετελείωτο ἡμέρᾳ, καθʼ ἣν, ὡς ἔοικε, μεγίστης τῷ Παμφίλου μαρτυρίῳ ἐπαξίως τοῦ ἀνδρὸς διανοιχθείσης πύλης εὐμαρὴς ἅμʼ αὐτῷ καὶ ἑτέροις ἡ πάροδος τῆς εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν εἰσόδου γεγένηται.
dekatos houtos athlētēs epi tois dedēlōmenois en mią kai tę̄ autę̄ teteleiōto hēmerą, kathʼ hēn, hōs eoike, megistēs tǭ Pamphilou martyriǭ epaxiōs tou andros dianoichtheisēs pylēs eumarēs hamʼ autǭ kai heterois hē parodos tēs eis tēn basileian tōn ouranōn eisodou gegenētai.
He was the tenth athlete, in addition to those already mentioned, perfected on one and the same day, on which, it seems, a very great gate was opened for the martyrdom of Pamphilus, worthy of the man, and an easy passage of entrance into the kingdom of heaven was made for others together with him.
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Summary: Seleucus was the tenth martyr of that day, which opened the kingdom to many with Pamphilus.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.23 (Dindorf 4:411; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.24Dindorf 4:411–412
κατʼ ἴχνη δῆτα τῷ Σελεύκῳ Θεόδουλος, σεμνός τις καὶ θεοσεβὴς πρεσβύτης, τῆς ἡγεμονικῆς τυγχάνων οἰκετίας, τετιμημένος τε παρὰ τῷ Φιρμιλλιανῷ πλέον τῶν κατὰ τὸν οἶκον ἁπάντων, τοῦτο μὲν τῆς ἡλικίας ἕνεκεν, καὶ τῷ τριγενείας πατέρα καθεστάναι, τοῦτο δὲ διʼ ἣν ἔσωζε περὶ αὐτοὺς εὔνοιαν καὶ πιστοτάτην συνείδησιν, τὸ παραπλήσιον τῷ Σελεύκῳ διαπραξάμενος, προσαχθεὶς τῷ δεσπότῃ καὶ μᾶλλον αὐτὸν τῶν πρότερον ὀξύνας, ταὐτὸ τοῦ σωτηρίου μαρτύριον πάθους σταυρῷ παραδοθεὶς κατεδέξατο.
katʼ ichnē dēta tǭ Seleukǭ Theodoulos, semnos tis kai theosebēs presbytēs, tēs hēgemonikēs tynchanōn oiketias, tetimēmenos te para tǭ Phirmillianǭ pleon tōn kata ton oikon hapantōn, touto men tēs hēlikias heneken, kai tǭ trigeneias patera kathestanai, touto de diʼ hēn esōze peri autous eunoian kai pistotatēn syneidēsin, to paraplēsion tǭ Seleukǭ diapraxamenos, prosachtheis tǭ despotę̄ kai mallon auton tōn proteron oxynas, tauto tou sōtēriou martyrion pathous staurǭ paradotheis katedexato.
Following in the steps of Seleucus came Theodulus, a venerable and godly old man, belonging to the governor's household, honoured by Firmilian more than all in the house, both for his age and because he was a father of three generations, and for the goodwill and most faithful conscience which he kept toward them. He did the same as Seleucus, was brought before his master, provoked him more than those before, and received, being given over to the cross, the same martyrdom as the Saviour's passion.
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Summary: Theodulus, an aged member of Firmilian's household, did as Seleucus and was crucified.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR doubled letter and lost iota subscript): Φιρμιλλιιανῶ → Φιρμιλλιανῷ.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.24 (Dindorf 4:411–412; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.25Dindorf 4:412
ἐπὶ τούτοις ἑνὸς ἔτι λείποντος, ὃ τὸν δωδέκατον ἀποπλήσοι τοῖς δηλουμένοις μάρτυσι ἀριθμὸν, Ἰουλιανὸς παρῆν τοῦτον ἀποπληρώσων ἐξ ἀποδημίας γέ τοι ἀφικόμενος αὐτίκα, καὶ μηδʼ εἰσβαλών πω τῇ πόλει, εὐθὺς ὡς εἶχεν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ μαθὼν καὶ ὁρμήσας ἐπὶ τὴν μαρτύρων θέαν, ὡς ἐπὶ γῆς χαμαὶ τὰ τῶν ἁγίων εἶδε σκηνώματα, χαρᾶς ἔμπλεως γεγονὼς, ἑκάστῳ περιπλακεὶς, τοὺς πάντας ἠσπάζετο.
epi toutois henos eti leipontos, ho ton dōdekaton apoplēsoi tois dēloumenois martysi arithmon, Ioulianos parēn touton apoplērōsōn ex apodēmias ge toi aphikomenos autika, kai mēdʼ eisbalōn pō tę̄ polei, euthys hōs eichen apo tēs hodou mathōn kai hormēsas epi tēn martyrōn thean, hōs epi gēs chamai ta tōn hagiōn eide skēnōmata, charas empleōs gegonōs, hekastǭ periplakeis, tous pantas ēspazeto.
After these, as one was still lacking to complete the twelfth place in the number of the martyrs described, Julian came to complete it. He had just arrived from a journey and had not yet entered the city; learning of it on the road, he hurried at once, just as he was, to see the martyrs; and when he saw the tabernacles of the saints lying on the ground, he was filled with joy, embraced each one, and kissed them all.
2 Pet 1:13–14 (echo, low confidence)
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Summary: Julian, arriving from a journey, embraced and kissed the martyrs' bodies, completing the twelve.
- 'Tabernacles' (σκηνώματα) means their bodies; compare 2 Cor 5:1, 4; 2 Pet 1:13–14.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.25 (Dindorf 4:412; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.26Dindorf 4:412
τοῦτο ποιοῦντα συλλαβόντες αὖθις οἱ τῶν φόνων διάκονοι προσάγουσι τῷ Φιρμιλλιανῷ. ἀκόλουθα δʼ αὑτῷ ἐπιτελῶν μακρῷ καὶ τοῦτον πυρὶ παραδίδωσιν. οὕτω δῆτα καὶ Ἰουλιανὸς σκιρτῶν καὶ ὑπεραλλόμενος, μεγάλῃ τε φωνῇ τῷ τηλικούτων αὐτὸν ἀξιώσαντι κυρίῳ ὑπερευχαριστῶν, τοῦ τῶν μαρτύρων κατηξιώθη στεφάνου.
touto poiounta syllabontes authis hoi tōn phonōn diakonoi prosagousi tǭ Phirmillianǭ. akoloutha dʼ hautǭ epitelōn makrǭ kai touton pyri paradidōsin. houtō dēta kai Ioulianos skirtōn kai hyperallomenos, megalę̄ te phōnę̄ tǭ tēlikoutōn auton axiōsanti kyriǭ hypereucharistōn, tou tōn martyrōn katēxiōthē stephanou.
While he was doing this, the ministers of the murders seized him again and brought him to Firmilian. He, acting consistently with himself, gave this man too over to a slow fire. So Julian, leaping and exulting, and thanking the Lord aloud for counting him worthy of such things, was counted worthy of the martyrs' crown.
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Summary: Julian was burned with a slow fire, thanking God for the honour.
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- Digital text corrected (OCR dropped letter; OCR slip in accent): οἶ τῶν φόνων → οἱ τῶν φόνων; Φιρμιλλιαῷ → Φιρμιλλιανῷ.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.26 (Dindorf 4:412; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.27Dindorf 4:412
ἦν δὲ οὗτος τὸ μὲν κατὰ σάρκα γένος Καππαδοκῶν, τὸν δὲ τρόπον εὐλαβέστατος καὶ πιστότατος καὶ γνησιώτατος, σπουδαῖός τε τὰ ἄλλα πάντα, καὶ πνέων αὐτοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος. τοιοῦτο τῆς συνοδίας τὸ στῖφος τῶν ἅμα Παμφίλῳ συνεισελθεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ μαρτύριον ἀξιωθέντων.
ēn de houtos to men kata sarka genos Kappadokōn, ton de tropon eulabestatos kai pistotatos kai gnēsiōtatos, spoudaios te ta alla panta, kai pneōn autou hagiou pneumatos. toiouto tēs synodias to stiphos tōn hama Pamphilǭ syneiselthein epi to martyrion axiōthentōn.
He was a Cappadocian by race according to the flesh, and in character most devout, faithful and genuine, earnest in all else, and breathing the Holy Spirit himself. Such was the company of those counted worthy to enter martyrdom together with Pamphilus.
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Summary: Julian, a devout Cappadocian, completed the company of Pamphilus's fellow martyrs.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.27 (Dindorf 4:412; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.28Dindorf 4:412–413
τούτων ἐπὶ τέσσαρας ἡμέρας τοσαύτας τε νύκτας ἐκ προστάξεως τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς ἡγουμένου τὰ ἱερὰ καὶ ὄντως ἅγια σώματα εἰς βορὰν τοῖς σαρκοβόροις ἐτηρεῖτο. ὡς δʼ οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς παραδόξως, οὐ θηρίον, οὐ πτηνὸν, οὐ κύων προσεπέλαζεν, αὖθις ἐξ οἰκονομίας τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ προνοίας ἀβλαβῆ ληφθέντα, τῆς τε προσηκούσης κηδείας λαχόντα, τῇ συνήθει παρεδόθη ταφῇ.
toutōn epi tessaras hēmeras tosautas te nyktas ek prostaxeōs tou dyssebous hēgoumenou ta hiera kai ontōs hagia sōmata eis boran tois sarkoborois etēreito. hōs dʼ ouden autois paradoxōs, ou thērion, ou ptēnon, ou kyōn prosepelazen, authis ex oikonomias tēs tou theou pronoias ablabē lēphthenta, tēs te prosēkousēs kēdeias lachonta, tę̄ synēthei paredothē taphę̄.
By the order of the impious governor, the sacred and truly holy bodies of these men were kept for four days and as many nights as food for carrion creatures. But when, marvellously, nothing approached them, neither beast nor bird nor dog, they were taken up unharmed by the dispensation of God's providence, received fitting funeral rites, and were given the customary burial.
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Summary: The bodies, exposed four days, were untouched by any animal and were then buried.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.28 (Dindorf 4:412–413; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.29Dindorf 4:413
ἔτι δὲ τῆς κατὰ τούτους κινήσεως ἀνὰ στόμα τοῖς πᾶσι λαλουμένης Ἀδριανὸς καὶ Εὔβουλος, ἀπὸ Μαγγαναίας οὕτω καλουμένης χώρας ὡς τοὺς λοιποὺς ὁμολογητὰς εἰς τὴν Καισάρειαν ἀφικόμενοι, πρὸς τῇ πύλῃ καὶ αὐτοὶ διʼ ἣν ἐληλύθασιν ἀνεκρίνοντο αἰτίαν· εἶτα ὁμολογήσαντες τἀληθὲς τῷ Φιρμιλλιανῷ προσάγονται. ὁ δʼ ὡς εἶχε, πάλιν μηδὲν ὑπερθέμενος, μετὰ πλείστας βασάνους ἃς κατὰ τῶν πλευρῶν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτέθεικε, θηρίων αὐτοὺς βορᾷ κατακρίνει.
eti de tēs kata toutous kinēseōs ana stoma tois pasi laloumenēs Adrianos kai Euboulos, apo Manganaias houtō kaloumenēs chōras hōs tous loipous homologētas eis tēn Kaisareian aphikomenoi, pros tę̄ pylę̄ kai autoi diʼ hēn elēlythasin anekrinonto aitian; eita homologēsantes talēthes tǭ Phirmillianǭ prosagontai. ho dʼ hōs eiche, palin mēden hyperthemenos, meta pleistas basanous has kata tōn pleurōn autois epitetheike, thēriōn autous borą katakrinei.
While the stir over these men was still on everyone's lips, Adrian and Eubulus, from the district called Manganaea, came to Caesarea to the remaining confessors; they too were questioned at the gate about the reason for their coming. Then, having confessed the truth, they were brought before Firmilian. He, as before, postponing nothing, after very many tortures applied to their sides, condemned them to be food for wild beasts.
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Summary: Adrian and Eubulus, coming from Manganaea, confessed at the gate and were condemned to the beasts.
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- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in accent; OCR slip in breathing): ὸμολογητὰς → ὁμολογητὰς; ἅς κατὰ → ἃς κατὰ.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.29 (Dindorf 4:413; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from Dindorf's Greek (1871); compared afterwards with the public-domain English of NPNF² 1 (McGiffert, 1890).
11.30Dindorf 4:413
δυεῖν δὴ οὖν μεταξὺ διελθουσῶν ἡμερῶν ὁ μὲν Ἀδριανὸς Δύστρου πέμπτῃ μηνὸς, πρὸ τριῶν Νώνων Μαρτίων, γενεθλίων τῆς κατὰ Καισαρέων νομιζομένης Τύχης ἡμέρᾳ, λέοντι παραβληθεὶς καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον ξίφει κατασφαγεὶς ἐτελειώθη, ὁ δὲ Εὔβουλος μεθʼ ἑτέραν μέσην, Νώναις αὐταῖς Μαρτίαις, ἣ γένοιτʼ ἂν ἑβδόμη Δύστρου, πολλὰ λιπαρήσαντος αὐτὸν τοῦ δικαστοῦ, ὡς ἂν θύσας τῆς νομιζομένης παρʼ αὐτῶν ἐλευθερίας τύχοι, τῆς προσκαίρου ζωῆς τὸν ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας εὐκλεῆ προτιμήσας θάνατον, μετὰ τοὺς θῆρας ὁμοίως τῷ προτέρῳ θῦμα γενόμενος, ὕστατος τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς Καισαρείας μαρτύρων τοὺς ἄθλους ἐπεσφραγίσατο.
dyein dē oun metaxy dielthousōn hēmerōn ho men Adrianos Dystrou pemptę̄ mēnos, pro triōn Nōnōn Martiōn, genethliōn tēs kata Kaisareōn nomizomenēs Tychēs hēmerą, leonti parablētheis kai meta touton xiphei katasphageis eteleiōthē, ho de Euboulos methʼ heteran mesēn, Nōnais autais Martiais, hē genoitʼ an hebdomē Dystrou, polla liparēsantos auton tou dikastou, hōs an thysas tēs nomizomenēs parʼ autōn eleutherias tychoi, tēs proskairou zōēs ton hyper eusebeias eukleē protimēsas thanaton, meta tous thēras homoiōs tǭ proterǭ thyma genomenos, hystatos tōn epi tēs Kaisareias martyrōn tous athlous epesphragisato.
After two days had passed, Adrian, on the fifth of the month Dystrus, the third day before the Nones of March, on the day of the birthday of the so-called Fortune of Caesarea, was thrown to a lion and then slain by the sword and perfected. Eubulus, two days later, on the Nones of March themselves, which would be the seventh of Dystrus, though the judge urged him earnestly to sacrifice and obtain what they consider freedom, preferred to temporary life a glorious death for godliness, and having become a sacrifice after the beasts like the former, he sealed the contests as the last of the martyrs at Caesarea.
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Summary: Adrian died on 5 March and Eubulus on 7 March, the last martyr of Caesarea.
- The 'Fortune' (Τύχη) of Caesarea was the city's protecting goddess. 5 and 7 March 310.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.30 (Dindorf 4:413; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.31Dindorf 4:413–414
μνημονεῦσαι δʼ ἔτι ἄξιον ἐνταῦθα τοῦ λόγου ὡς ἄρα οὐκ εἰς μακρὸν τῆς οὐρανίου προνοίας τοὺς δυσσεβεῖς ἄρχοντας αὐτοῖς τυράννοις μετελθούσης. ὁ γὰρ τὰ τοσαῦτα κατὰ τῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ μαρτύρων παροινήσας, αὐτὸς δὴ ὁ Φιρμιλλιανὸς, μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἐσχάτην ὑπομείνας τιμωρίαν ξίφει τὴν ζωὴν καταστρέφει. καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ Καισάρειαν ἐφʼ ὅλοις τοῖς τοῦ διωγμοῦ χρόνοις ἐπιτελεσθέντα μαρτύρια τοιαῦτα.
mnēmoneusai dʼ eti axion entautha tou logou hōs ara ouk eis makron tēs ouraniou pronoias tous dyssebeis archontas autois tyrannois metelthousēs. ho gar ta tosauta kata tōn tou Christou martyrōn paroinēsas, autos dē ho Phirmillianos, meta tōn allōn eschatēn hypomeinas timōrian xiphei tēn zōēn katastrephei. kai ta men kata Kaisareian ephʼ holois tois tou diōgmou chronois epitelesthenta martyria toiauta.
It is worth recalling at this point that not long after, heavenly providence overtook the impious rulers together with the tyrants themselves. For the very man who had raged so much against the martyrs of Christ, Firmilian himself, suffered the extreme penalty with the others and ended his life by the sword. Such were the martyrdoms accomplished at Caesarea during the whole period of the persecution.
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Summary: Firmilian himself was later executed by the sword.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 11.31 (Dindorf 4:413–414; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/11-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from Dindorf's Greek (1871); compared afterwards with the public-domain English of NPNF² 1 (McGiffert, 1890).
Chapter 12
12.1Dindorf 4:414
Ὅσα δʼ ἐπὶ τούτοις κατὰ τὸν ἐν μέσῳ χρόνον ἐπιτελεσθῆναι συμβέβηκε κατὰ τοὺς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προεστῶτας, ὡς ἀντὶ ποιμένων τῶν λογικῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ προβάτων, ὧν οὐκ ἐνθέσμως προύστησαν, καμήλων ἀλόγου καὶ τῇ τοῦ σώματος φύσει σκολιωτάτου ζῴου φροντιστὰς αὐτοὺς ὡσπερεὶ τούτων ἀξίους ἡ θεία κατακρίνασα δίκη προεστήσατο, ὅπως τε βασιλικῶν ἵππων ἐνόχους παραστάσει κατεδίκασεν, ὅσα τε τῶν ἱερῶν σκευῶν, τῶν ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἕνεκα κειμηλίων, οἱ αὐτοὶ πρὸς τῶν κατὰ καιροὺς βασιλικῶν ἐπιτρόπων τε καὶ ἀρχόντων ἐν ὕβρεσι ἀτιμίαις καὶ βασάνοις ἀνηντλήκασι, τάς τε ἐπὶ τούτοις τῶν πολλῶν φιλαρχίας, ἀκρίτους τε καὶ ἐκθέσμους χειροτονίας, καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς ὁμολογηταῖς σχίσματα, ὅσα τε οἱ νέοι στασιώδεις κατὰ τῶν τῆς ἐκκλησίας λειψάνων διὰ σπουδῆς ἐμηχανήσαντο, καινότερα καινοῖς ἐπινεωτερίζοντες, καὶ ἀφειδῶς ταῖς τοῦ διωγμοῦ συμφοραῖς ἐπεντρίβοντες καὶ κακὰ κακοῖς ἐπιτειχίζοντες, ταῦτα πάντα παρήσειν μοι δοκῶ, ἀνοίκειον ἐμαυτῷ κρίνας, παραιτουμένῳ τε καὶ ἀποφεύγοντι, ὡς δʼ οὖν καὶ ἀρχομένῳ μοι εἴρηται, τὴν περὶ τούτων διήγησιν, ἀλλὰ γὰρ ὅσα σεμνὰ καὶ εὔφημα κατὰ τὸν ἱερὸν λόγον, καὶ εἰ τις ἀρετὴ καὶ ἔπαινος, ταῦτα λέγειν τε καὶ γράφειν καὶ πισταῖς ἀκοαῖς παρέχεσθαι οἰκειότατον ἡγούμενος τῇ τῶν θαυμαστῶν μαρτύρων ἱστορίᾳ. καὶ τῇ μετὰ ταύτην οὐρανόθεν ἡμῖν ἐπιφανείσῃ εἰρήνῃ κοσμήσειν μοι δοκῶ τοῦ παντὸς λόγου τὴν περιγραφήν.
Hosa dʼ epi toutois kata ton en mesǭ chronon epitelesthēnai symbebēke kata tous tōn ekklēsiōn proestōtas, hōs anti poimenōn tōn logikōn tou Christou probatōn, hōn ouk enthesmōs proustēsan, kamēlōn alogou kai tę̄ tou sōmatos physei skoliōtatou zǭou phrontistas autous hōsperei toutōn axious hē theia katakrinasa dikē proestēsato, hopōs te basilikōn hippōn enochous parastasei katedikasen, hosa te tōn hierōn skeuōn, tōn ekklēsiastikōn heneka keimēliōn, hoi autoi pros tōn kata kairous basilikōn epitropōn te kai archontōn en hybresi atimiais kai basanois anēntlēkasi, tas te epi toutois tōn pollōn philarchias, akritous te kai ekthesmous cheirotonias, kai ta en autois homologētais schismata, hosa te hoi neoi stasiōdeis kata tōn tēs ekklēsias leipsanōn dia spoudēs emēchanēsanto, kainotera kainois epineōterizontes, kai apheidōs tais tou diōgmou symphorais epentribontes kai kaka kakois epiteichizontes, tauta panta parēsein moi dokō, anoikeion emautǭ krinas, paraitoumenǭ te kai apopheugonti, hōs dʼ oun kai archomenǭ moi eirētai, tēn peri toutōn diēgēsin, alla gar hosa semna kai euphēma kata ton hieron logon, kai ei tis aretē kai epainos, tauta legein te kai graphein kai pistais akoais parechesthai oikeiotaton hēgoumenos tę̄ tōn thaumastōn martyrōn historią. kai tę̄ meta tautēn ouranothen hēmin epiphaneisę̄ eirēnę̄ kosmēsein moi dokō tou pantos logou tēn perigraphēn.
As for what happened besides these things in the intervening time to the presidents of the churches: how divine justice, condemning them as though worthy of it, set them, instead of shepherds of the rational sheep of Christ over which they presided not lawfully, as keepers of camels, an irrational animal and most crooked in the nature of its body; how it condemned them to the care of the imperial horses; how much they endured in insults, dishonours and tortures from the imperial procurators and rulers of the time over the sacred vessels and treasures of the church; besides these, the ambition of many, the rash and unlawful ordinations, the schisms among the confessors themselves, and all that the young agitators zealously devised against the remnants of the church, introducing innovations upon innovations, unsparingly adding to the calamities of the persecution and heaping evils on evils: all these I think I shall pass over, judging the account of them unsuitable to me, since I decline and avoid it, as I said also at the beginning. But whatever is venerable and of good report, according to the sacred word, and if there is any virtue and praise, these I consider most fitting to tell and write and offer to faithful ears in the history of the wonderful martyrs. And I think I shall adorn the close of the whole account with the peace that afterwards shone upon us from heaven.
Phil 4:8 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Eusebius deliberately passes over the failures of church leaders, ambition, irregular ordinations and schisms, telling only what is praiseworthy.
- 'Whatever is venerable ... if there is any virtue and praise' quotes Phil 4:8. 'As I said at the beginning' probably refers to Hist. eccl. 8.2.2–3, where Eusebius states the same principle. 'Not lawfully' (οὐκ ἐνθέσμως) is Eusebius's judgment on these leaders.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip in accent): οἶ αὐτοὶ → οἱ αὐτοὶ; οἶ νέοι → οἱ νέοι.
Extrabiblical texts: Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.2.2-3 (Church History; allusion)
Topics: Persecution, Church office
Cite (SBL): Eusebius, Mart. Pal. 12.1 (Dindorf 4:414; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/eusebius-martyribus-palaestinae/12-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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