Church History 10.4.18

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

Summary: Christ alone tamed savage nations by his gentle laws and keeps flourishing despite constant attack.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:455–456

τίς ἀνημέρων ἐθνῶν ἔθη βάρβαρα καὶ ἀνήμερα τοῖς ἡμέροις αὐτοῦ καὶ φιλανθρωποτάτοις παρέλυσε νόμοις; τίς αἰῶσιν ὅλοις ὑπὸ πάντων πολεμούμενος τὴν ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον ἀρετὴν ἐπεδείξατο, ὡς ἀνθεῖν ὁσημέραι καὶ νεάζειν διὰ παντὸς τοῦ βίου;

English · Claude translation

Who has abolished the barbarous and savage customs of savage nations by his own gentle and most humane laws? Who, attacked by all for whole ages, has shown a virtue beyond human, so as to flourish and be renewed every day throughout his whole life?

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Source: Dindorf 4:455–456 · 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. 10.4.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/18/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/18/).

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