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Church History 4.15.17

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): as he entered the stadium a heavenly voice said, “Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.”

Greek text · Dindorf 4:157

θορύβου δὲ τηλικούτου ὄντος ἐν τῷ σταδίῳ, ὡς μηδὲ πολλοῖς ἀκουσθῆναι, τῷ Πολυκάρπῳ εἰσιόντι “ εἰς τὸ στάδιον φωνὴ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ γέγονεν ἴσχυε, Πο- “λύκαρπε, καὶ ἀνδρίζου.’ καὶ τὸν μὲν εἰπόντα οὐδεὶς “εἶδεν, τὴν δὲ φωνὴν τῶν ἡμετέρων πολλοὶ ἤκουσαν.

English · Claude translation

There being such an uproar in the stadium that not even many could be heard, as Polycarp entered the stadium a voice came to him from heaven: ‘Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.’ And no one saw the speaker, but many of our people heard the voice.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:157 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Mart. Pol. 9.1 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Mart. Pol. 9.1; compare Josh 1:6–9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/17/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/17/).

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