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Church History 10.5.7

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

Summary: The governor is informed that the Christians have full freedom of worship.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:474

ἅτινα τῇ σῇ ἐπιμελείᾳ πληρέστατα δηλῶσαι ἐδογματίσαμεν, ὅπως εἰδείης ἡμᾶς ἐλευθέραν καὶ ἀπολελυμένην ἐξουσίαν τοῦ τημελεῖν τὴν ἑαυτῶν θρησκείαν τοῖς αὐτοῖς Χριστιανοῖς, δεδωκέναι.

English · Claude translation

We have resolved to make these things known most fully to your care, so that you may know that we have given to these same Christians free and unrestricted power to attend to their own religion.

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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. 48.5 (On the Deaths of the Persecutors) · echo, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.5.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/5/7/).

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