Church History 10.4.41 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Three doors lead into the church on the east side, the central one taller and adorned with bronze reliefs.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:463

ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ τὴν τούτων θέαν παραμειψάμενος, πλείοσιν ἔτι μᾶλλον τοῖς ἐνδοτάτω προπύλοις τὰς ἐπὶ τὸν νεὼν παρόδους ἀναπεπταμένας ἐποίει, ὑπὸ μὲν ταῖς ἡλίου βολαῖς αὖθις τρεῖς πύλας ὑφʼ ἒν καταθεὶς πλευρὸν, ὧν τὸ πολὺ τὰς παρʼ ἑκάτερα μεγέθει τε καὶ πλάτει πλεονεκτεῖν τῇ μέσῃ χαρισάμενος, παραπήγμασί τε χαλκοῦ σιδηροδέτοις καὶ ποικίλμασιν ἀναγλύφοις διαφερόντως αὐτὴν φαιδρύνας, ὡσὰν βασιλίδι ταύτῃ τοὺς δορυφόρους ὑπέζευξε.

English · Claude translation

But passing by this sight too, he made open passages to the temple by still more numerous inner gateways, again placing three doors on one side under the rays of the sun. The middle one he endowed with far greater height and breadth than those on either side, and adorned it especially with bronze plates bound with iron and with relief work, and yoked the others to it as bodyguards to a queen.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:463 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.41 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/41/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.41 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/41/).