Church History 4.15.26

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): the crowd raged against Polycarp as the teacher of Asia and destroyer of their gods.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:158–159

τούτου λεχθέντος ὑπὸ τοῦ κήρυκος πᾶν τὸ πλῆ “θος τῶν ἐθνῶν τε καὶ Ἰουδαίων τῶν τὴν Σμύρνα “ κατοικούντων ἀκατασχέτῳ θυμῷ καὶ μεγάλῃ φων “ ἐβόα οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τῆς Ἀσίας διδάσκαλος, ὁ πατη “τῶν Χριστιανῶν, ὁ τῶν ἡμετέρων θεῶν καθαιρέ- “της, ὁ πολλοὺς διδάσκων μὴ θύειν μηδὲ προσκυ- “νεῖν.᾿

English · Claude translation

When this had been said by the herald, the whole multitude of Gentiles and Jews living in Smyrna cried out with uncontrollable rage and a loud voice: ‘This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teaches many not to sacrifice nor to worship.’

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Source

Dindorf 4:158–159 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Mart. Pol. 12.2 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 12.2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/26/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/26/).

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