Church History 10.4.72 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The panegyric ends with a prayer that God keep the church in his fold and grant eternal peace through Christ.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:472–473

ταῦτα καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἐξῆς ἅπαντας χρόνους ταῖς μνήμαις ἀναζωπυροῦντες, ἀτὰρ καὶ τῆς παρούσης πανηγύρεως καὶ τῆς φαιδρᾶς ταύτης καὶ λαμπροτάτης ἡμέρας τὸν αἴτιον καὶ πανηγυριάρχην νύκτωρ καὶ μεθʼ ἡμέραν διὰ πάσης ὥρας καὶ διʼ ὅλης, ὡς εἰπεῖν, ἀναπνοῆς ἐν νῷ προορώμενοι, στέργοντες καὶ σέβοντες ψυχῆς ὅλῃ δυνάμει, καὶ νῦν ἀναστάντες, μεγάλῃ διαθέσεως φωνῇ καθικετεύσωμεν, ὡς ἂν ὑπὸ τὴν αὐτοῦ μάνδραν εἰς τέλος ἡμᾶς σκεπάζων διασώζοιτο, τὴν παρʼ αὐτοῦ βραβεύων ἀρραγῆ καὶ ἄσειστον αἰωνίαν εἰρήνην, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ σωτῆρι ἡμῶν, διʼ οὗ αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς σύμπαντας αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.

English · Claude translation

Rekindling these things in our memories now and for all time to come, and also keeping before our minds night and day, every hour and, so to speak, with every breath, the author and leader of the present festival and of this bright and most splendid day, loving and worshiping him with all the power of our soul, let us now rise and with a loud voice of devotion beseech him to shelter and preserve us to the end in his fold, granting us his unbroken and unshaken eternal peace, in Christ Jesus our Savior, through whom be glory to him for all the ages of ages. Amen.”

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:472–473 · 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

Prayer

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.72 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/72/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.4.72 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/4/72/).