Church History 4.30.2

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

Summary: His works include a dialogue On Fate addressed to Antoninus.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:181

ἐν οἷς ἐστι καὶ ὁ πρὸς Ἀντωνῖνον ἱκανώτατος αὐτοῦ περὶ εἱμαρμένης διάλογος, ὅσα τε ἄλλα φασὶν αὐτὸν προφάσει τοῦ τότε διωγμοῦ συγγράψαι.

English · Claude translation

Among these is his most able dialogue On Fate addressed to Antoninus, and whatever other works they say he wrote on the occasion of the persecution of that time.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:181 · 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)
Topics: Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

The Book of the Laws of the Countries, written by Bardesanes's disciple, may preserve the substance of On Fate.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/30/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.30.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/30/2/).

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