Church History 10.4.26 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:458

ταύτῃ δʼ οὖν καὶ ὅδε Χριστὸν ὅλον, τὸν λόγον, τὴν σοφίαν, τὸ φῶς, ἐν τῇ αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ ἀγαλματοφορῶν ψυχῇ, οὐδʼ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν οἵᾳ σὺν μεγαλοφροσύνῃ, πλουσίᾳ τε καὶ ἀπλήστῳ διανοίας χειρὶ, καὶ σὺν οἵᾳ πάντων ὑμῶν φιλοτιμίᾳ, τῇ τῶν εἰσφορῶν μεγαλοψυχίᾳ, τῆς αὐτῆς αὐτῷ προθέσεως κατὰ μηδένα τρόπον ἀπολειφθῆναι φιλονεικότερον μεγαλοφρονουμένων, τὸν μεγαλοπρεπῆ τόνδε θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου νεὼν, τῷ τοῦ κρείττονος παραδείγματι ὡσὰν ὁρώμενον μὴ ὁρωμένου, τὴν φύσιν ἐμφερῆ συνεστήσατο, χῶρον μὲν τόνδε, ὅτι καὶ ἄξιον εἰπεῖν πρῶτον ἁπάντων, πάσης οὐ καθαρᾶς ὕλης ἐχθρῶν ἐπιβουλαῖς παραχωρήσας νον οὐ παριδὼν, οὐδὲ τῇ τῶν αἰτίων παραχωρήσας κακίᾳ, ἐξὸν ἐφʼ ἕτερον ἐλθόντα, μυρίων ἄλλων εὐπορουμένων τῇ πόλει, ῥᾳστώνην εὕρασθαι τοῦ πόνου καὶ πραγμάτων ἀπηλλάχθαι.

English · Claude translation

In this way, then, this man too, bearing in his own soul the image of the whole Christ, the Word, the Wisdom, the Light, has built this magnificent temple of God the Most High, similar in nature to the pattern of the better, as the visible is to the invisible; with what greatness of soul, with what rich and unstinting hand of mind, and with what generosity of you all, who in the largeness of your contributions strove not to fall short of his purpose in any way, it is not possible to say. And first of all, which is worth saying first of all, he did not neglect this place, though it was covered by the plots of enemies with every kind of impure rubbish, nor did he give way to the wickedness of those responsible, though he could have gone to another site, since the city had countless others available, and so found relief from toil and freed himself of trouble.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:458 · 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)

Scripture

1 Cor 1:24 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The digital text is garbled at παραχωρήσας νον (a word such as κεχωσμένον, “covered”, is intended); translated from the sense. “Word, Wisdom, Light” echo John 1:1–9 and 1 Cor 1:24.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/26/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/26/).