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Church History 5.1.30

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

Summary: Amid the shouts of the crowd, Pothinus bore good witness before the tribunal.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:190

ὃς ὑπὸ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα κομισθεὶς, παραπεμπόντων αὐτὸν τῶν πολιτικῶν ἐξουσιῶν καὶ “παντὸς τοῦ πλήθους, ἐπιβοήσεις παντοίας ποιουμένων, ὡς αὐτοῦ ὄντος τοῦ κυρίου, ἀπεδίδου τὴν καλὴν μαρτυρίαν.

English · Claude translation

He was brought to the tribunal by the soldiers, escorted by the city authorities and the whole multitude, who raised every kind of shout as though he were Christ himself; and he gave the good testimony.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:190 · 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)
Scripture
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; “the good testimony” echoes 1 Tim 6:13.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.30 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/30/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.30 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/30/).

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