Church History 10.8.15

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

Summary: At Amasea and elsewhere in Pontus churches were demolished or closed to prevent worship.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:485–486

τὰ γοῦν ἀμφὶ τὴν Ἀμάσειαν καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς τοῦ Πόντου πόλεις κατεργασθέντα πᾶσαν ὑπερβολὴν ὠμότητος ὑπερηκόντισεν, ἔνθα τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν τοῦ θεοῦ αἱ μὲν ἐξ ὕψους εἰς ἔδαφος αὖθις κατερρίπτοντο, τὰς δὲ ἀπέκλειον, ὡς ἂν μὴ συνάγοιτό τις τῶν εἰωθότων, μηδὲ τῷ θεῷ τὰς ἐποφειλομένας ἀποδιδῷ λατρείας.

English · Claude translation

What was done at Amasea and the other cities of Pontus surpassed every extreme of cruelty. There some of the churches of God were again thrown down from top to bottom, while others they shut up, so that none of those who were accustomed to meet might assemble or render to God the worship owed him.

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Source: Dindorf 4:485–486 · 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

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Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): εἰω- θότων → εἰωθότων.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/15/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/15/).

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