Church History 4.15.33

Summary: The Martyrdom (quoted): Polycarp blessed God for counting him worthy to share Christ's cup among the martyrs.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:159–160

῾ὁ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ καὶ εὐλογη- “τοῦ παιδός σου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πατὴρ, διʼ οὗ τὴν “περὶ σὲ ἐπίγνωσιν εἰλήφαμεν, ὁ θεὸς ἀγγέλων κα “ δυνάμεων καὶ πάσης τῆς κτίσεως παντός τε τοῦ γε νους τῶν δικαίων, οἳ ζῶσιν ἐνώπιόν σου, εὐλογῶ “ὅτι ἠξίωσάς με τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ ὥρας ταύτης, το “λαβεῖν μέρος ἐν ἀριθμῷ τῶν μαρτύρων, ἐν τῷ ποτη ῾ρίῳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἰς ἀνάστασιν ζωῆς αἰωνίου ψυ “ χῆς τε καὶ σώματος, ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ πνεύματος ἁγίον “

English · Claude translation

‘Father of your beloved and blessed Child Jesus Christ, through whom we have received knowledge of you, God of angels and powers and of all creation and of the whole race of the righteous who live before you, I bless you that you have thought me worthy of this day and hour, to take a share among the number of the martyrs in the cup of Christ, to the resurrection of eternal life of soul and body in the incorruptibility of the Holy Spirit;

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Source

Dindorf 4:159–160 · 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

Matt 20:22 · echo, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Mart. Pol. 14.1–2 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Prayer, Eschatology

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.33 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/33/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.33 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/33/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:159–160

English · Claude translation

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