Church History 4.15.37 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:160

τὸ γὰρ πῦρ καμάρας εἶδος ποιῆσαη “ὥσπερ ὀθόνης πλοίου ὑπὸ πνεύματος πληρουμένης “κύκλῳ περιετείχισε τὸ σῶμα τοῦ μάρτυρος, καὶ ἦη “ εἰς μέσον οὐχ ὡς σὰρξ καιομένη, ἀλλʼ ὡς χρυσο “καὶ ἄργυρος ἐν καμίνῳ πυρούμενος. καὶ γὰρ εὐα “ δίας τοιαύτης ἀντελαβόμεθα, ὡς λιβανωτοῦ πνέοη “τος ἢ ἄλλου τινὸς τῶν τιμίων ἀρωμάτων.

English · Claude translation

For the fire, making the shape of a vault, like a ship's sail filled by the wind, walled round the body of the martyr; and it was in the midst, not like flesh burning, but like gold and silver refined in a furnace. And we perceived such a fragrance as of breathing frankincense or some other precious spice.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:160 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Mart. Pol. 15.2 (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Mart. Pol. 15.2. The digital text repeats ὥσπερ.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word in the digital text): “ὥσπερ ὥσπερ ὀθόνης → “ὥσπερ ὀθόνης.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.37 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/37/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.37 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/37/).