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Church History 4.16.3

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

Summary: Justin (quoted) expects to be plotted against by Crescens, no philosopher but a slanderer courting popularity.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:163

‘κἀγὼ οὖν προσδοκῶ ὑπό τινος τῶν ὠνομασμένων ἐπιβουλευθῆναι, κἂν ξύλῳ ἐντιναγῆναι, ἢ κἂν ὑπὸ “Κρίσκεντος τοῦ ἀφιλοσόφου ἢ καὶ φιλοκόμπου. οὐ γὰρ φιλόσοφον εἰπεῖν ἄξιον τ ν ἄνδρα, ὅς γε περὶ ὧν μὴ ἐπίσταται δημοσίᾳ καταμαρτυρεῖ, ὡς ἀθέων καὶ ἀσεβῶν Χριστιανῶν ὄντων, πρὸς χάριν καὶ ἡδονὴν τῶν πολλῶν πεπλανημένως τοῦτο πράττων.

English · Claude translation

“I too, then, expect to be plotted against by one of those named, and to be fastened to the stocks, or even by Crescens, that lover not of wisdom but of noise. For the man is not worthy to be called a philosopher, since he publicly testifies against things he does not understand, saying that the Christians are atheists and impious, doing this mistakenly to court the favour and pleasure of the many.

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Source
Dindorf 4:163 · 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
  • Justin, 2 Apol. 8 (Second Apology) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation (4.16.3–6) is Justin, 2 Apol. 3.1–6 in the traditional numbering (chapter 8 in Rauschen's order used on this site).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/3/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/3/).

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