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Church History 5.1.26

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

Summary: Under torture Biblis repented, denied the slander of cannibalism, confessed Christ, and joined the martyrs.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:189

ἡ δὲ ἐν τῇ στρεβλώσει ἀνένηψε, “καὶ ὡσὰν εἰπεῖν ἐκ βαθέος ὕπνου ἀνεγρηγόρησεν, “ὑπομνησθεῖσα διὰ τῆς προσκαίρου τιμωρίας τὴν αἰ- “ώνιον ἐν γεέννῃ κόλασιν, καὶ ἐξ ἐναντίας ἀντεῖπε “τοῖς βλασφήμοις φήσασα ῾πῶς ἂν παιδία φάγοιεν οἱ “τοιοῦτοι, οἶς μηδὲ ἀλόγων ζῴων αἷμα φαγεῖν ἐξόν;᾿ “καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦδε Χριστιανὴν ἑαυτὴν ὡμολόγει, καὶ ἐν “τῷ κλήρῳ τῶν μαρτύρων προσετέθη.

English · Claude translation

But on the rack she came to her senses and, so to speak, woke from a deep sleep, reminded by the temporary punishment of the eternal punishment in Gehenna; and she contradicted the blasphemers, saying, “How could such people eat children, who are not even allowed to eat the blood of irrational animals?” From then on she confessed herself a Christian and was added to the lot of the martyrs.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:189 · 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)
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Martyrdom, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons. Biblis's reply reflects continued Christian observance of the ban on blood (Acts 15:29).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/26/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.26 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/26/).

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