Church History 4.13.5

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

Summary: The ordinance (quoted): the Christians grow bolder toward God while the Asians neglect worship and persecute them.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:151

οἱ μὲν “οὖν εὐπαρρησιαστότεροι γίνονται πρὸς τὸν θεὸν, “ὑμεῖς δὲ παρὰ πάντα τὸν χρόνον, καθʼ ὃν ἀγνοεῖν “δοκεῖτε, τῶν τε θεῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀμελεῖτε καὶ “τῆς θρησκείας τῆς περὶ τὸν ἀθάνατον, ὃν δὴ τοὺς “Χριστιανοὺς θρησκεύοντας ἐλαύνετε καὶ διώκετε “ἕως θανάτου.

English · Claude translation

They become more confident toward God, while you, during all the time in which you seem to be ignorant, neglect the gods and everything else, and the worship of the Immortal, whom the Christians worship and whom you drive out and persecute to death.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:151 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Rescript to the Council of Asia.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.13.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/13/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.13.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/13/5/).

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