Church History 10.1.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:447–448

ἀλλʼ οἶ μὲν ᾗ τάχος σπεύσαντες τῶν πολὺ κρειττόνων ἔτυχον, ἔν τʼ αὐτοῖς οὐρανοῖς καὶ παραδείσῳ τῆς ἐνθέου τρυφῆς ἀναρπασθέντες, ἡμεῖς δὲ καὶ τάδε μείζονα ἢ καθʼ ἡμᾶς ὑπάρχειν ὁμολογοῦντες ὑπερεκπεπλήγμεθα μὲν τῆς τοῦ αἰτίου μεγαλοδωρεᾶς τὴν χάριν, θαυμάζομεν δὲ εἰκότως ὅλης ψυχῆς δυνάμει σέβοντες, καὶ ταῖς ἀναγράπτοις προρρήσεσιν ἀλήθειαν ἐπιμαρτυροῦντες διʼ ὧν εἴρηται

English · Claude translation

But they, hastening as quickly as possible, obtained far better things, being caught up into heaven itself and the paradise of divine delight; while we, acknowledging that even these present things are greater than we deserve, are utterly amazed at the grace of the munificence of the one who caused them, and rightly wonder at it, worshiping with all the strength of our soul, and bearing witness to the truth of the written prophecies, in which it is said:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:447–448 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

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

Translation

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

Compare

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

Topics

Martyrdom, Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray number in the digital text): ἐπιμαρτυροῦντες 5 διʼ → ἐπιμαρτυροῦντες διʼ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/1/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/1/5/).