Church History 10.4.47 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:465

ἀλλὰ γὰρ τέως ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος τούτοις ἡ πάλαι χήρα καὶ ἔρημος θεοῦ χάριτι περιβληθεῖσα τοῖς ἄνθεσι γέγονεν ἀληθῶς ὡς κρίνον, ᾗ φησιν ἡ προφητεία, καὶ τὴν νυμφικὴν ἀναλαβοῦσα στολὴν, τόν τε τῆς εὐπρεπείας περιθεμένη στέφανον, οἶα χορεύειν διὰ Ἡσαΐου παιδεύεται, τὰ χαριστήρια τῷ βασιλεῖ θεῷ φωναῖς εὐφήμοις γεραίρουσα, αὐτῆς λεγούσης ἐπακούσωμεν

English · Claude translation

But meanwhile, for the present, she who was long widowed and desolate, clothed by the grace of God with these flowers, has truly become like a lily, as the prophecy says; and having put on her bridal robe and set on her head the crown of beauty, as she is taught through Isaiah to dance, honoring God the King with words of praise for her thanksgiving, let us hear her saying:

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:465 · 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

Isa 35:1 · allusion, medium confidence
Isa 61:10 · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Isa 35:1 and Isa 61:10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing breathing in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): τοὐ παρόντος → τοῦ παρόντος; διὰ Ησαΐου → διὰ Ἡσαΐου.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.47 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/47/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.47 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/47/).