Church History 10.8.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: God exposed Licinius's plots, and Constantine, armed with godliness, escaped them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:483

τῷ δὲ ἄρα ὁ θεὸς ἦν φίλος, κηδεμών τε καὶ φύλαξ, ὃς αὐτῷ τὰς ἐν ἀπορρήτῳ καὶ σκότει μηχανωμένας ἐπιβουλὰς εἰς φῶς ἄγων διήλεγχε. τοσοῦτον ἀρετῆς τὸ μέγα τῆς θεοσεβείας ὅπλον πρὸς ἄμυναν μὲν ἐχθρῶν, οἰκείας δὲ φυλακὴν σωτηρίας ἰσχύει ᾧ δὴ πεφραγμένος ὁ θεοφιλέστατος ἡμῶν βασιλεὺς τὰς τοῦ δυσωνύμου πολυπλόκους ἐπιβουλὰς διεδίδρασκεν.

English · Claude translation

But God was Constantine's friend, protector, and guardian, who brought to light and exposed the plots contrived in secret and darkness. So great is the power of the great weapon of godliness for the defense against enemies and the safeguarding of one's own safety; fortified by it, our most God-beloved emperor escaped the many-woven plots of the infamous man.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:483 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/8/6/).