Church History 10.4.54 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Paulinus, as the bride's attendant, with the people's prayers and by Christ's power, raised the fallen church as Scripture describes.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:467

ἀλλὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα τοῦ νυμφίου λόγου πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ νύμφην τὴν ἱερὰν καὶ ἁγίαν ἐκκλησίαν ἐπιφωνοῦντος, εἰκότως ὁ νυμφοστόλος ὅδε αὐτὴν τὴν ἔρημον, τὴν πτῶμα κειμένην, τὴν παρὰ ἀνθρώποις ἀνέλπιδα, ταῖς κοιναῖς ἁπάντων ὑμῶν εὐχαῖς, χεῖρας τὰς ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ὀρέξας, ἐξήγειρε καὶ ἐξανέστησε, θεοῦ τοῦ παμβασιλέως νεύματι καὶ τῆς Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δυνάμεως ἐπιφανείᾳ, τοιαύτην τε ἀναστήσας κατεστήσατο, οἵαν ἐκ τῆς τῶν ἱερῶν χρησμῶν καταγραφῆς ἐδιδάσκετο.

English · Claude translation

Since the Bridegroom, the Word, speaks such things to his own bride, the sacred and holy church, fittingly this man, the bride's attendant, stretching out your hands with the common prayers of you all, raised up and set on her feet the desolate one, lying fallen, without hope among men, by the will of God the King of all and the manifestation of the power of Jesus Christ; and having raised her, he established her such as he was taught from the written record of the sacred oracles.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:467 · 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

Church office, Prayer

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.54 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/54/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.54 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/54/).