Church History 10.5.22

Summary: Because some rejected the Roman judgment as hasty and made by too few, causing scandal, Constantine resolved to end the dispute before a larger gathering.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:478–479

ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ, ὡς συμβαίνει, ἐπιλαθόμενοί τινες καὶ τῆς σωτηρίας τῆς ἰδίας καὶ τοῦ σεβάσματος τοῦ ὀφειλομένου τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ αἱρέσει, ἔτι καὶ νῦν τὰς ἰδίας ἔχθρας παρατείνειν οὐ παύονται, μὴ βουλόμενοι τῇ ἤδη ἐξενεχθείσῃ κρίσει συντίθεσθαι, καὶ διοριζόμενοι, ὅτι δὴ ἄρα ὀλίγοι τινὲς τὰς γνώμας καὶ τὰς ἀποφάσεις ἑαυτῶν ἐξήνεγκαν, ἢ καὶ μὴ πρότερον ἁπάντων τῶν ὀφειλόντων ζητηθῆναι ἀκριβῶς ἐξετασθέντων πρὸς τὸ τὴν κρίσιν ἐξενέγκαι πάνυ ταχέως καὶ ὀξέως ἔσπευσαν, ἔκ τε τούτων ἁπάντων ἐκεῖνα συμβαίνει γενέσθαι, τὸ καὶ τούτους αὐτοὺς ἀδελφικὴν καὶ ὁμόφρονα ὀφείλοντας ἔχειν ὁμοψυχίαν αἰσχρῶς, μᾶλλον δὲ μυσαρῶς ἀλλήλων ἀποδιεστάναι, καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τοῖς ἀλλοτρίας ἔχουσι τὰς ψυχὰς ἀπὸ τῆς ἁγιωτάτης θρησκείας ταύτης πρόφασιν χλεύης διδόναι, — ὅθεν προνοητέον μοι ἐγένετο, ὅπως τοῦτο, ὅπερ ἐχρῆν μετὰ τὴν ἐξενεχθεῖσαν ἤδη κρίσιν αὐθαιρέτῳ συγκαταθέσει πεπαῦσθαι, κἂν νῦν ποτὲ δυνηθῇ πολλῶν παρόντων τέλους τυχεῖν.

English · Claude translation

But since, as happens, some, forgetting both their own salvation and the reverence owed to the most holy faith, even now do not cease to prolong their own enmities, not wishing to accept the judgment already given, and asserting that only a few gave their opinions and decisions, or that they hastened very quickly and sharply to give judgment before everything that ought to have been inquired into had been accurately examined; and since from all this it comes about that those very people who ought to have brotherly and harmonious unity of soul are shamefully, or rather abominably, separated from one another, and give occasion for mockery to men whose souls are strangers to this most holy religion, it became my concern to provide that this matter, which ought to have ceased by voluntary agreement after the judgment already given, might now at last be brought to an end in the presence of many.

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Dindorf 4:478–479 · 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.

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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.

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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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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/22/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/22/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:478–479

English · Claude translation

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