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Church History 4.17.12

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

Summary: Justin (quoted): Lucius protested that Ptolemaeus was condemned for no crime but the name of Christian.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:167

καὶ τοῦ Οὐρβικίου κελεύσαν- ‘τος αὐτὸν ἀπαχθῆναι, Λούκιός τις, καὶ αὐτὸς ὢν ῾ Χριστιανὸς, ὁρῶν τὴν ἀλόγως οὕτω γενομένην κρίσιν, πρὸς τὸν Οὐρβίκιον ἔφη ‘τίς ἡ αἰτία τοῦ μήτε μοιχὸν, μήτε πόρνον, μήτε ἀνδροφόνον, μήτε λωποδύτην, μήτε ἅρπαγα, μήτε ἁπλῶς ἀδίκημά τι πράξαντα ἐλεγχόμενον, ὀνόματος δὲ Χριστιανοῦ “ πρωσωνυμίαν ὁμολογοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον τοῦτον “ἐκολάσω; οὐ πρέποντα Εὐσεβεῖ αὐτοκράτορι οὐδὲ φιλοσόφῳ Καίσαρος παιδὶ, οὐδὲ ἱερᾷ συγκλήτῳ κρίνεις, ὠ Οὐρβίκιε.᾿

English · Claude translation

And when Urbicius ordered him to be led away, a certain Lucius, himself also a Christian, seeing the judgment given so unreasonably, said to Urbicius, ‘What is the reason why you have punished this man, who is convicted neither of adultery, nor of sexual immorality, nor of murder, nor of stealing clothes, nor of robbery, nor in short of any wrongdoing, but who confesses the name of Christian? You do not judge, Urbicius, as befits the emperor Pius, nor the philosopher, the son of Caesar, nor the sacred senate.’

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Source
Dindorf 4:167 · 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. 2 (Second Apology) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Justin, 2 Apol. 2.15–16. μοιχός “adulterer” and πόρνος “sexually immoral man” are kept distinct.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.17.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/17/12/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.17.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/17/12/).

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