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Church History 5.1.28

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

Summary: Some badly tortured prisoners survived by God's strength, while newly arrested ones died in the prison.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:189–190

οἱ μὲν γὰρ βασανισθέντες πικρῶς, “ὥστε δοκεῖν μηδὲ τῆς θεραπείας πάσης τυχόντας “ἔτι ζήσαι δύνασθαι, παρέμενον ἐν τῇ εἱρκτῇ ἔρημοι “μὲν τῆς παρὰ ἀνθρώπων ἐπιμελείας, ἀναρρωννύ- “μενοι δὲ ὑπὸ κυρίου καὶ ἐνδυναμούμενοι καὶ σώ- “ματι καὶ ψυχῇ, καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς παρορμῶντες καὶ “παραμυθούμενοι. οἱ δὲ νεαροὶ καὶ ἄρτι συνειλημ- “μένοι, ὧν μὴ προκατῄκιστο τὰ σώματα, τὸ βάρος “ οὐκ ἔφερον τῆς συγκλείσεως, ἀλλʼ ἔνδον ἐναπέθνησκον.

English · Claude translation

Some, who had been so bitterly tortured that it seemed they could not live even with every care, remained in the prison, bereft of human attention but revived by the Lord and strengthened in body and soul, and they encouraged and comforted the rest. But the young ones, recently arrested, whose bodies had not been hardened by earlier ill-treatment, could not bear the burden of confinement and died inside.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:189–190 · 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, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/28/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/28/).

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