Church History 5.1.7

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

Summary: The Christians first suffered mob violence of every kind.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:184

καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τὰ “ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου πανδημεὶ σωρηδὸν ἐπιφερόμενα γενναίως “ὑπέμενον, ἐπιβοήσεις καὶ πληγὰς καὶ συρμοὺς “καὶ διαρπαγὰς καὶ λίθων βολὰς καὶ συγκλείσεις “καὶ πάνθʼ ὅσα ἠγριωμένῳ πλήθει ὡς πρὸς “ἐχθροὺς καὶ πολεμίους φιλεῖ γίνεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

First they nobly endured what the mob heaped on them en masse: shouts and blows and dragging, plundering and stoning and imprisonment, and everything an enraged multitude likes to do to foes and enemies.

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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)

Extrabiblical texts

Ep. Lugd. (Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from the Letter of Vienne and Lyons.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/1/7/).

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