Church History 4.16.9

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

Summary: Tatian (quoted): Crescens, who preached contempt of death, feared it and plotted Justin's death for exposing the philosophers.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:165

θανάτου δὲ “ὁ καταφρονεῖν συμβουλεύων οὕτως αὐτὸς ἐδεδίει “τὸν θάνατον ὡς καὶ Ἰουστῖνον καθάπερ μεγάλῳ “ κακῷ τῷ θανάτῳ περιβαλεῖν πραγματεύσασθαι, διότι κηρύττων τὴν ἀλήθειαν λίχνους τοὺς φιλοσόφους “ καὶ ἀπατεῶνας ἐξήλεγχεν.’’ καὶ τὸ μὲν κατὰ ’Ιουστῖνον μαρτύριον τοιαύτην εἴληχε τὴν αἰτίαν.

English · Claude translation

And he who advised others to despise death was himself so afraid of death that he contrived to inflict death on Justin as a great evil, because Justin, by proclaiming the truth, convicted the philosophers of being gluttons and impostors.” Such was the cause of Justin's martyrdom.

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Dindorf 4:165 · 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.

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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

Tatian, Or. Graec. 19 (Oration to the Greeks) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Tatian, Or. 19.2.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/9/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.16.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/16/9/).

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