Church History 10.8.18

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

Summary: Christians again fled to the countryside and mountains, and Licinius planned a general persecution.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:486

φυγαὶ δὴ αὖθις ἐπὶ τούτοις τῶν θεοσεβῶν ἐγίνοντο ἀνδρῶν, καὶ πάλιν ἀγροὶ, καὶ πάλιν ἐρημίαι, νάπαι τε καὶ ὄρη τοὺς Χριστοῦ θεράποντας ὑπεδέχοντο. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ταῦτα τοῦτον προυχώρει τῷ δυσσεβεῖ τὸν τρόπον, λοιπὸν καὶ τὸν κατὰ πάντων ἀνακινεῖν διωγμὸν ἐπὶ διάνοιαν ἐβάλλετο.

English · Claude translation

Once again, therefore, there were flights of godly men, and again the fields, again the deserts, glens, and mountains received the servants of Christ. And when these things too went in this way for the impious man, he then set his mind on stirring up the persecution against all.

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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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/18/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.18 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/18/).

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