Church History 4.15.28

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

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): this fulfilled his vision of the burning pillow.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:159

ἔδει γὰρ τὸ τῆς φανερωθείσης αὐτῷ “ἐπὶ τοῦ προσκεφαλαίου ὀπτασίας πληρωθῆναι, ὅτε “ἰδὼν αὐτὸ καιόμενον προσευχόμενος εἶπεν ἐπιστρα- “φεὶς τοῖς μετʼ αὐτοῦ πιστοῖς προφητικῶς ῾δεῖ με “ζῶντα κατακαῆναι.᾿

English · Claude translation

For the vision that had appeared to him about the pillow had to be fulfilled, when, seeing it burning while he prayed, he turned and said prophetically to the faithful with him, ‘I must be burned alive.’

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Dindorf 4:159 · 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. 12.3 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 12.3.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/28/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/28/).

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