Church History 10.4.31

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

Summary: The persecutors fell like the giants who fought the gods, while the despised church's endurance is rewarded, as Isaiah foretold.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:460

ἀλλʼ οἶ μὲν γιγάντων τρόπον θεομαχίαν ἐνστησάμενοι τοιαύτην εἰλήχασι τὴν τοῦ βίου καταστροφήν· τῆς δʼ ἐρήμου καὶ παρʼ ἀνθρώποις ἀπεγνωσμένης τοιαῦτα οἷα τὰ ὁρώμενα τῆς κατὰ θεὸν ὑπομονῆς τὰ τέλη, ὡς ἀναφωνεῖν αὐτῇ τὴν προφητείαν Ἠσαίου ταῦτα

English · Claude translation

They, then, having waged war against God like the giants, met such an end of life. But of the church that was deserted and despaired of by men, the results of her endurance for God's sake are such as are now seen, so that Isaiah's prophecy cries out to her these words:

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:460 · 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)
Topics: Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

The giants' war against the gods is a Greek myth.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.31 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/31/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.31 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/31/).

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