Church History 1.4.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians form a new nation, vast and devout, that suddenly appeared and cannot be destroyed.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:17

ἄρτι μὲν ὁμολογουμένως τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίας νεωστὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐπιλαμψάσης, νέον ὁμολογουμένως ἔθνος οὐ μικρὸν οὐδʼ ἐπὶ γωνίας ποι γῆς ἱδρυμένον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν πολυανθρωπότατόν τε καὶ θεοσεβέστατον, ταύτῃ τε ἀνώλεθρον καὶ ἀήττητον, ᾗ καὶ εἰς ἀεὶ τῆς παρὰ θεοῦ βοηθείας τυγχάνει, χρόνων προθεσμίαις ἀρρήτοις ἀθρόως οὕτως ἀναπέφηνε, τὸ παρὰ τοῖς πᾶσι τῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ προσηγορίᾳ τετιμημένον.

English · Claude translation

It is admitted that when the presence of our Saviour Jesus Christ recently shone upon all men, a new nation, admittedly, appeared suddenly, at the unspeakable appointed times, not small nor settled in some corner of the earth, but the most populous and most God-fearing of all nations, and in this respect indestructible and unconquerable, that it always receives help from God: the nation honoured everywhere with the name of Christ.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:17 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 1.4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/1/4/2/).