Church History 4.15.46 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:162

τὰ μὲν δὴ κατὰ τὸν θαυμάσιον καὶ ἀποστολικὸν Πολύκαρπον τοιούτου κατηξίωτο τέλους, τῶν κατὰ τὴν Σμυρναίων ἐκκλησίαν ἀδελφῶν τὴν ἱστορίαν ἐν ᾗ δεδηλώκαμεν αὐτῶν ἐπιστολῇ κατατεθειμένων. ἐν τῇ αὐτῆ̣ δὲ περὶ αὐτοῦ γραφῇ καὶ ἄλλα μαρτύρια συνῆπτο κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν Σμύρναν πεπραγμένα ὑπὸ τὴν αὐτὴν περίοδον του χρόνου τῆς τοῦ Πολυκάρπου μαρτυρίας, μεθʼ ὧν καὶ Μητρόδωρος τῆς κατὰ Μαρκίωνα πλάνης πρεσβύτερος δὴ εἶναι δοκῶν πυρὶ παραδοθεὶς ἀνῄρηται.

English · Claude translation

Such was the end thought worthy of the wonderful and apostolic Polycarp, the brothers of the church of the Smyrnaeans having recorded the story in their letter which we have quoted. In the same writing about him other martyrdoms were attached that took place in the same Smyrna in the same period of time as the martyrdom of Polycarp; among them Metrodorus, who seemed to be a presbyter of the Marcionite error, was given to the fire and put to death.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:162 · 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. (Martyrdom of Polycarp) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The digital text has unread letters in ἐκκλησία(ς) and αὐτο(ῦ).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (unread letter in the digital text; reading certain from context): ἐκκλησία(??) → ἐκκλησίαν; αὐτο(??) → αὐτοῦ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.46 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/46/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.15.46 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/15/46/).