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Church History 2.14.4

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

Summary: Exposed by Peter in Judea, Simon fled westward over the sea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:62–63

αὐτίκʼ ὁ δηλωθεὶς γόης ὥσπερ ὑπὸ θείας καὶ παραδόξου μαρμαρυγῆς τὰ τῆς διανοίας πληγεὶς ὄμματα, ὅτε πρότερον ἐπὶ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐφʼ οἶς ἐπονηρεύσατο πρὸς τοῦ ἀποστόλου Πέτρου κατεφωράθη, μεγίστην καὶ ὑπερπόντιον ἀπάρας πορείαν τὴν ἀπʼ ἀνατολῶν ἐπὶ δυσμὰς ᾤχετο φεύγων, μόνως ταύτῃ βιωτὸν αὐτῷ κατὰ γνώμην εἶναι οἰόμενος.

English · Claude translation

At once the sorcerer we have mentioned, struck in the eyes of his mind as by a divine and wonderful flash of light, when earlier in Judea he had been caught in his wickedness by the apostle Peter, undertook a very great journey across the sea and went off fleeing from east to west, thinking that only thus could he live as he wished.

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Source
Dindorf 4:62–63 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • Allusion to Acts 8:18–24.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/14/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 2.14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/14/4/).

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