Church History 10.4.30 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:459–460

“ῥομφαίαν ἐσπάσαντο οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ, ἐνέτειναν τόξον αὐτῶν, τοῦ καταβαλεῖν πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα, τοῦ σφάξαι τοὺς εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ· ἡ ῥομφαία αὐτῶν εἰσέλθοι εἰς καρδίαν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ τόξα αὐτῶν συντριβείη.” καὶ πάλιν “ἀπώλετο τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν μετʼ ἤχου, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν ἐξήλειψας εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος· ὅτι δὴ καὶ ἐν κακοῖς γενόμενοι ἐκέκραξαν, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ σώζων, πρὸς κύριον, καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσεν αὐτῶν. ἀλλʼ οἶ μὲν συνεποδίσθησαν καὶ ἔπεσον, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀνέστημεν καὶ ἀνωρθώθημεν.’’ καὶ τό γε ἐν τούτοις προαναφωνοῦν ‘κύριε, ἐν τῇ πόλει σου τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτῶν ἐξουδενώσειςʼ’ ἀληθὲς ὑπʼ ὀφθαλμοῖς πάντων ἀναπέφανται.

English · Claude translation

“The sinners have drawn the sword, they have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to slay the upright in heart; let their sword enter into their own heart, and let their bows be broken.” And again: “Their memory has perished with a noise, and you have blotted out their name forever and ever; for when they were in trouble they cried out, and there was none to save, to the Lord, and he did not hear them. They were bound and fell, but we have risen and stand upright.” And what was foretold in these, “Lord, in your city you will bring their image to nothing,” has been shown true before the eyes of all.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:459–460 · 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

Ps 37:14–15 (36:14-Ps LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 9:5–6 (9:6-Ps LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 18:41 (17:42 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 20:8 (19:9 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 73:20 (72:20 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Ps 37:14–15 (36:14–15 LXX), Ps 9:5–6 (9:6–7 LXX), Ps 18:41 (17:42 LXX), Ps 20:8 (19:9 LXX), and Ps 73:20 (72:20 LXX), combined.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): καἰ οὐκ ἦν → καὶ οὐκ ἦν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.30 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/30/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.30 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/30/).