Church History 10.5.3

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

Summary: Because the earlier rescript had many restrictive conditions, some Christians had been deterred.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:473

ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ πολλαὶ καὶ διάφοροι αἱρέσεις ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἀντιγραφῇ, ἐν ᾗ τοῖς αὐτοῖς συνεχωρήθη ἡ τοιαύτη ἐξουσία, ἐδόκουν προστεθεῖσθαι σαφῶς, τυχὸν ἴσως τινὲς αὐτῶν μετʼ ὀλίγον ἀπὸ τῆς τοιαύτης παραφυλάξεως ἀνεκρούοντο.

English · Claude translation

But since in that rescript, in which such permission was granted to them, many and various conditions seemed to have been clearly added, perhaps some of them shortly afterward were deterred from such observance.

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Source: Dindorf 4:473 · 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: Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

αἱρέσεις here seems to mean “conditions” or “clauses” (the Latin has condiciones); the sense is disputed.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/3/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/3/).

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