Church History 10.5.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:474

ἅτινα οὕτως ἀρέσκειν ἡμῖν ἀντιγράψαι ἀκόλουθον ἦν, ἵνʼ ἀφαιρεθεισῶν παντελῶς τῶν αἱρέσεων, αἵτινες τοῖς προτέροις ἡμῶν γράμμασι τοῖς πρὸς τὴν σὴν καθοσίωσιν ἀποσταλεῖσι περὶ τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἐνείχοντο, καὶ ἅτινα πάνυ σκαιὰ καὶ τῆς ἡμετέρας πραότητος ἀλλότρια εἶναι ἐδόκει, ταῦτα ὑφαιρεθῇ, καὶ νῦν ἐλευθέρως τε καὶ ἀπλανῶς ἕκαστος τῶν τὴν αὐτὴν προαίρεσιν ἐσχηκότων τοῦ φυλάττειν τὴν τῶν Χριστιανῶν θρησκείαν ἄνευ τινὸς ὀχλήσεως τοῦτο αὐτὸ παραφυλάττοι.

English · Claude translation

It was fitting to write that this is our pleasure, so that, the conditions contained in our former letters sent to your devotion concerning the Christians being entirely removed, those things which seemed very harsh and foreign to our clemency may be withdrawn, and now each one of those who have the same purpose of keeping the religion of the Christians may observe it freely and without hindrance, without any molestation.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:474 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Lactantius, Mort. 48.4 (On the Deaths of the Persecutors) · echo, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text): ἔνʼ ἀφαιρεθεισῶν → ἵνʼ ἀφαιρεθεισῶν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/6/).