Church History 10.8.16

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

Summary: Licinius, with a bad conscience, believed Christians prayed only for Constantine and so turned his anger on them.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:486

συντελεῖσθαι γὰρ οὐχ ἡγεῖτο ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τὰς εὐχὰς, συνειδότι φαύλῳ τοῦτο λογιζόμενος, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ τοῦ θεοφιλοῦς βασιλέως πάντα πράττειν ἡμάς καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἱλεοῦσθαι πέπειστο· ἔνθεν ὡρμᾶτο καθʼ ἡμῶν τὸν θυμὸν ἐπισκήπτειν.

English · Claude translation

For he did not think that the prayers were offered on his behalf, reasoning so from a bad conscience, but was convinced that we did everything and propitiated God on behalf of the God-beloved emperor; hence he set out to vent his anger on us.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:486 · 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, Prayer

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letter in the digital text): λογιξόμενος → λογιζόμενος.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/16/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/16/).

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