Church History 5.1.12

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

Summary: The church feared not the tortures but that more would fall away.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:186

τότε δὴ “ οἱ πάντες μεγάλως ἐπτοήθημεν, διὰ τὸ ἄδηλον τῆς “ὁμολογίας, οὐ τὰς ἐπιφερομένας κολάσεις φοβούμε- ‘νοι, ἀλλὰ τὸ τέλος ἀφορῶντες, καὶ τὸ ἀποπεσεῖν τινὰ ‘δεδιότες.

English · Claude translation

Then we were all greatly alarmed because of the uncertainty of their confession, not fearing the punishments inflicted, but looking to the end and dreading that someone might fall away.

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Source

Dindorf 4:186 · 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

Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/12/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/12/).

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