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Church History 5.1.6

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

Summary: God's grace raised up steadfast believers who endured every abuse and hurried to Christ.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:184

ἀντεστρατήγει “δὲ ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἀσθενεῖς ἐρρύετο, “ἀντιπαρέτασσε δὲ στύλους ἑδραίους, δυναμένους “διὰ τῆς ὑπομονῆς πᾶσαν τὴν ὁρμὴν τοῦ πονηροῦ “εἰς ἑαυτοὺς ἑλκύσαι, οἳ καὶ ὁμόσε ἐχώρουν “αὐτῷ, πᾶν εἶδος ὀνειδισμοῦ καὶ κολάσεως ἀνεχόμενοι, “οἳ καὶ τὰ πολλὰ ὀλίγα ἡγούμενοι ἔσπευδον πρὸς “Χριστὸν, ὄντως ἐπιδεικνύμενοι ὅτι οὐκ ἄξια τὰ παθήματα “τοῦ νῦν καιροῦ πρὸς τὴν μέλλουσαν δόξαν “ἀποκαλυφθῆναι εἰς ἡμᾶς.

English · Claude translation

But the grace of God led the fight against him: it rescued the weak and set against him firm pillars, able through endurance to draw upon themselves the whole assault of the evil one. They closed with him, bearing every kind of reproach and punishment; counting much as little, they hastened to Christ, showing truly that “the sufferings of the present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:184 · 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, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons, which quotes Rom 8:18; “pillars” echoes Gal 2:9 and 1 Tim 3:15.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/6/).

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