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Church History 2.22.8

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

Summary: Nero was at first mild, but later turned to crimes, including attacks on the apostles.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:75–76

εἰκός γέ τοι κατὰ μὲν ἀρχὰς ἠπιώτερον τοῦ Νέρωνος διακειμένου ῥᾷον τὴν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δόγματος τοῦ Παύλου καταδεχθῆναι ἀπολογίαν, προελθόντος δὲ εἰς ἀθεμίτους τόλμας μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ τὰ κατὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐπιχειρῆσαι.

English · Claude translation

It is likely that at first, when Nero was more mildly disposed, Paul's defence of his doctrine was more easily accepted, but that when Nero advanced to lawless outrages, he attacked the apostles among others.

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Source
Dindorf 4:75–76 · 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. 2.22.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/2/22/8/).

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