Church History 10.4.13

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

Summary: At his first coming Christ's light dissolved the bonds of sin in which demons held humanity.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:454

ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν ἅπαξ ἐν νυκτὶ ζοφερᾷ καὶ σκότῳ βαθεῖ, δαιμόνων ἀλιτηρίων πλάναις καὶ θεομισῶν πνευμάτων ἐνεργείαις πᾶν τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος κατορωρυγμένον, αὐτὸ μόνον ἐπιφανεὶς, ὡσὰν κηροῦ διατακέντος ταῖς αὐτοῦ βολαῖς τοῦ φωτὸς τὰς πολυδέτους τῶν ἀσεβημάτων ἡμῶν σειρὰς διελύσατο.

English · Claude translation

But at that time, once for all, when the whole human race lay buried in a gloomy night and deep darkness by the deceptions of accursed demons and the workings of God-hating spirits, by merely appearing he loosed, as wax is melted, the many-knotted cords of our impieties with the rays of his light.

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Source: Dindorf 4:454 · 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: Christology

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/13/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/13/).

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