Church History 4.26.10

Summary: Melito (quoted): Hadrian and Antoninus wrote to governors and cities forbidding action against Christians.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:178

ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐκείνων ἄγνοιαν οἱ σοὶ εὐσεβεῖς πατέρες “ἐπηνωρθώσαντο, πολλάκις πολλοῖς ἐπιπλήξαντες “ἐγγράφως, ὅσοι περὶ τούτων νεωτερίσαι ἐτόλμησαν. “ἐν οἷς ὁ μὲν πάππος σου Ἀδριανὸς πολλοῖς μὲν καὶ “ἄλλοις, καὶ Φουνδανῷ δὲ τῷ ἀνθυπάτῳ, ἡγουμένῳ “δὲ τῆς Ἀσίας, γράφων φαίνεται, ὁ δὲ πατήρ σου, “καὶ σοῦ τὰ σύμπαντα διοικοῦντος αὐτῷ, ταῖς πόλεσι “περὶ τοῦ μηδὲν νεωτερίζειν περὶ ἡμῶν ἔγραψεν, “ἐν οἶς καὶ πρὸς Λαρισαίους καὶ πρὸς Θεσσα. “λονικεῖς καὶ Ἀθηναίους καὶ πρὸς πάντας Ἕλληνας. “

English · Claude translation

But your pious fathers corrected their ignorance, often rebuking in writing many who dared to make innovations concerning them. Among them your grandfather Hadrian is seen writing to many others and to Fundanus the proconsul, governor of Asia; and your father, when you too were governing all things with him, wrote to the cities not to make innovations concerning us, among them to the Larissaeans, the Thessalonians, the Athenians, and all the Greeks.

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Source

Dindorf 4:178 · 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

Melito of Sardis, Melito Apology (Melito of Sardis (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/10/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:178

English · Claude translation

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