Church History 5.1.33 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:190–191

οἱ γὰρ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην σύλληψιν ἔξαρνοι “γενόμενοι συνεκλείοντο καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ μετεῖχον τῶν “δεινῶν· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τούτʼ ᾦ ὄφελός τι αὐ- “τοῖς ἡ ἐξάρνησις ἐγίνετο· ἀλλʼ οἶ μὲν ὁμολογοῦντες “ὅ καὶ ἦσαν, συνεκλείοντο ὡς Χριστιανοὶ, μηδεμιᾶς “ἄλλης αὐτοῖς αἰτίας ἐπιφερομένης, οὗτοι δὲ λοιπὸν ὡς ἀνδροφόνοι καὶ μιαροὶ κατείχοντο, διπλότερον “παρὰ τοὺς λοιποὺς κολαζόμενοι.

English · Claude translation

For those who had denied at the first arrest were also imprisoned and shared the sufferings; for at this time their denial was of no benefit to them. Those who confessed what they were were imprisoned as Christians, no other charge being brought against them; but these were now held as murderers and defiled persons, and were punished twice as much as the rest.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:190–191 · 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. The deniers were now held on the criminal charges (cannibalism, incest) that confession of the name alone did not carry.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.33 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/33/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.33 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/33/).