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Church History 4.8.7

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

Summary: Justin (quoted) introduces the copy of Hadrian's letter, asking for just trials.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:146

καὶ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς δὲ ἀντίγραφον παρατέθειται, τὴν ῾Ρωμαϊκὴν φωνὴν, ὡς εἷχε, διαφυλάξας. προλέγει δʼ αὐτῆς ταῦτα “καὶ ἐξ ἐπι- “στολῆς δὲ ταῦτα τοῦ μεγίστου καὶ ἐπιφανεστάτου “Καίσαρος Ἀδριανοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν ἔχοντες ἀπαι- “τεῖν ὑμᾶς, καθὰ ἠξιώσαμεν κελεῦσαι τὰς κρίσεις “γίνεσθαι, τοῦτο οὐχ ὡς ὑπὸ Ἀδριανοῦ κελευσθὲν “μᾶλλον ἠξιώσαμεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἐπίστασθαι δι- “καίαν ἀξιοῦν τὴν προσφώνησιν. ὑπετάξαμεν δὲ καὶ “τῆς ἐπιστολῆς Ἀδριανοῦ τὸ ἀντίγραφον, ἵνα καὶ “τοῦτο ἀληθεύειν ἡμᾶς γνωρίζητε. καὶ ἔστι τόδε.”

English · Claude translation

And he has set down a copy of the letter, preserving the Latin language as it was. He says this before it: “Although from a letter of the greatest and most illustrious Caesar Hadrian, your father, we have grounds to demand that you order trials to be held as we have asked, yet we have asked this not so much because it was commanded by Hadrian, but because we know that we ask what is just. We have also subjoined the copy of Hadrian's letter, so that you may know that we speak the truth in this too. And it is this.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:146 · 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) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Justin, 1 Apol. 68.3–4.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/7/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 4.8.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/4/8/7/).

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