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Church History 10.4.71

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

Summary: All should praise God, who forgives, heals, redeems, and pities those who fear him, as Psalm 103 says.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:472

ὧν ἤδη ἐν μέρει καταξιωθέντες ἄνδρες ἅμα παισὶ καὶ γυναιξὶ, μικροὶ καὶ μεγάλοι, πάντες ἀθρόως ἐν ἐνὶ πνεύματι καὶ μιᾷ ψυχῇ μὴ διαλίπωμεν ἐξομολογούμενοι, καὶ τὸν τῶν τοσούτων ἡμῖν ἀγαθῶν παραίτιον ἀνευφημοῦντες, “τὸν εὐιλατεύοντα πάσαις ταῖς ἀνομίαις ἡμῶν, τὸν ἰώμενον πάσας τὰς νόσους ἡμῶν, τὸν λυτρούμενον ἐκ φθορᾶς τὴν ζωὴν ἡμῶν, τὸν στεφανοῦντα ἡμάς ἐν ἐλέει καὶ οἰκτιρμοῖς, τὸν ἐμπιμπλῶντα ἐν ἀγαθοῖς τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ἡμῶν, ὅτι οὐ κατὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν ἐποίησεν ἡμῖν, οὐδὲ κατὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν ἀνταπέδωκεν ἡμῖν, ὅτι καθʼ ὅσον ἀπέχουσιν ἀνατολαὶ ἀπὸ δυσμῶν, ἐμάκρυνεν ἀφʼ ἡμῶν τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν· καθὼς οἰκτείρει πατὴρ υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, ᾠκτείρησε κύριος τοὺς φοβουμένους αὐτόν.’’

English · Claude translation

Having already been counted worthy of these things in part, men together with children and women, small and great, let us all together with one spirit and one soul never cease confessing and praising the author of such great blessings to us, “who is gracious to all our iniquities, who heals all our diseases, who redeems our life from corruption, who crowns us with mercy and compassion, who satisfies our desire with good things; for he has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities; for as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our iniquities from us; as a father pities his sons, so the Lord has pitied those who fear him.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:472 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 103:3–5, 10, 12–13 (102 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.71 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/71/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.71 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/71/).

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