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Church History 10.9.4

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

Summary: Constantine and his son Crispus, with God and Christ as allies, easily defeated Licinius.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:487

διὸ δὴ τῷ φιλαγάθῳ μίξας τὸ μισοπόνηρον ὁ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀρωγὸς, πρόεισιν ἅμα παιδὶ Κρίσπῳ βασιλεῖ φιλανθρωποτάτῳ, σωτήριον δεξιὰν ἅπασι τοῖς ἀπολλυμένοις ἐκτείνας· εἶθʼ οἷα παμβασιλεῖ θεῷ, θεοῦ παιδὶ σωτῆρι ἁπάντων ποδηγῷ καὶ συμμάχῳ χρώμενοι, πατὴρ ἅμα καὶ υἱὸς, ἄμφω κύκλῳ διελόντες τὴν κατὰ τῶν θεομισῶν παράταξιν, ῥᾳδίαν τὴν νίκην ἀποφέρονται, τῶν κατὰ τὴν συμβολὴν πάντων ἐξευμαρισθέντων αὐτοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ γνώμην.

English · Claude translation

Therefore the helper of the good, mixing hatred of evil with love of good, went forth with his son Crispus, a most humane emperor, stretching out a saving right hand to all who were perishing. Then, as having God the King of all and the Son of God, the Savior of all, as their guide and ally, father and son together, dividing their battle line around the enemies of God, easily won the victory, everything in the encounter having been made easy for them by God according to their wish.

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Source
Dindorf 4:487 · 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)

Notes

Translation notes

  • The war ended with Licinius's defeat in 324. Crispus was executed in 326; later editions of the History remove his name.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/9/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 10.9.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/10/9/4/).

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