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Church History 4.8.6

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

Summary: Justin reports that Hadrian, prompted by Granianus, ordered Fundanus to execute no Christian without a proper charge.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:145–146

ἔτι δʼ ὁ αὐτὸς ἱστορεῖ, δεξάμενον τὸν Ἀδριανὸν παρὰ Σερεννίου Γρανιανοῦ, λαμπροτάτου ἡγουμένου, γράμματα ὑπὲρ Χριστιανῶν, περιέχοντα ὡς οὐ δίκαιον εἴη ἐπὶ μηδενὶ ἐγκλήματι, βοαῖς δήμου χαριζομένους, ἀκρίτως κτείνειν αὐτοὺς, ἀντιγράψαι Μινουκίῳ Φουνδανῷ ἀνθυπάτῳ τῆς Ἀσίας, προστάττοντα μηδένα κτείνειν ἄνευ ἐγκλήματος καὶ εὐλόγου κατηγορίας.

English · Claude translation

The same writer further relates that Hadrian, having received from Serennius Granianus, a most distinguished governor, a letter on behalf of the Christians, stating that it was not just to kill them without trial, on no charge, to gratify the clamours of the populace, wrote in reply to Minucius Fundanus, proconsul of Asia, ordering him to put no one to death without a charge and a reasonable accusation.

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Source
Dindorf 4:145–146 · 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, 1 Apol. 68 (First Apology) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Justin, 1 Apol. 68.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/6/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/6/).

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