Church History 5.1.24

Summary: When Sanctus was tortured again, his body was unexpectedly restored, so that the torture became a healing.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:188–189

τῶν γὰρ ἀνόμων “μεθʼ ἡμέρας πάλιν στρεβλούντων τὸν μάρτυρα, καὶ “νομιζόντων ὅτι οἰδούντων καὶ φλεγμαινόντων τῶν “σωμάτων εἰ τὰ αὐτὰ προσενέγκοιεν κολαστήρια, πε- “ριέσοιντο αὐτοῦ, ὁπότε οὐδὲ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν “ἁφὴν ἠνείχετο, ἢ ὅτι ἐναποθανὼν ταῖς βασάνοις “φόβον ἐμποιήσειε τοῖς λοιποῖς, οὐ μόνον οὐδὲν περὶ “αὐτὸν τοιοῦτο συνέβη, ἀλλὰ καὶ παρὰ πᾶσαν δόξαν “ἀνθρώπων ἀνέκυψε καὶ ἀνωρθώθη τὸ σωμάτιον ἐν “ταῖς μετέπειτα βασάνοις, καὶ τὴν ἰδέαν ἀπέλαβε “τὴν προτέραν καὶ τὴν χρῆσιν τῶν μελῶν, ὥστε μὴ “κόλασιν, ἀλλʼ ἴασιν διὰ τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Χριστοῦ “τὴν δευτέραν στρέβλωσιν αὐτῷ γενέσθαι.

English · Claude translation

For when the lawless, some days later, tortured the martyr again, thinking that if they applied the same punishments while his body was swollen and inflamed they would overcome him, since he could not bear even the touch of hands, or that by dying under the tortures he would strike fear into the rest, not only did nothing of the kind happen to him, but beyond all human expectation his poor body rose up and was straightened in the subsequent tortures, and regained its former appearance and the use of its limbs, so that through the grace of Christ the second torture became for him not punishment but healing.

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Source

Dindorf 4:188–189 · 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

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/24/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/24/).

Greek text · Dindorf 4:188–189

English · Claude translation

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