Church History 4.26.8

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

Summary: Melito (quoted): since Augustus the empire has prospered, proving Christianity's good influence.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:177–178

καὶ τοῦτο μέγιστον τεκμήριον τοῦ πρὸς ἀγαθοῦ τὸν καθʼ ἡμᾶς λόγον συνακμάσαι τῇ καλῶς ἀρξαμένῃ βασιλείᾳ, ἐκ τοῦ μηδὲν φαῦλον ἀπὸ τῆς Αὐγούστου ἀρχῆς ἀπαντῆσαι, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ἅπαντα λαμπρὰ καὶ ἔνδοξα κατὰ τὰς “πάντων εὐχάς.

English · Claude translation

And this is the greatest proof that our doctrine flourished for good together with the empire so happily begun: that nothing bad has befallen since the reign of Augustus, but on the contrary everything splendid and glorious, according to the prayers of all.

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Dindorf 4:177–178 · 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.

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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

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

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Translation notes

Quotation from Melito, Apology.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.26.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/26/8/).

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