Church History 5.20.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:227

ταῦτα καὶ τότε διὰ τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ “θεοῦ τὸ ἐπʼ ἐμοὶ γεγονὸς σπουδαίως ἤκουον, ‘μνηματιζόμενος αὐτὰ οὐκ ἐν χάρτῃ, ἀλλʼ ἐν τῇ ἐμῇ “καρδίᾳ, καὶ ἀεὶ διὰ τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ γνησίως “αὐτὰ ἀναμαρυκῶμαι· καὶ δύναμαι διαμαρτύρασθαι “ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅτι εἴ τι τοιοῦτον ἀκηκόει “ἐκεῖνος ὁ μακάριος καὶ ἀποστολικὸς πρεσβύτερος, “ἀνακράξας ἂν καὶ ἐμφράξας τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ “σύνηθες αὐτῷ εἰπών ‘ ὦ καλὲ θεὲ, εἰς οἴους με και- “ροὺς τετήρηκας, ἔνα τούτων ἀνέχωμαι πεφεύγει ἂν “καὶ τὸν τόπον ἐν ᾧ καθεζόμενος ἢ ἑστὼς τῶν “ούτων ἀκηκόει λόγων.

English · Claude translation

These things even then, through the mercy of God that was upon me, I listened to eagerly, noting them down not on paper but in my heart; and always, by the grace of God, I ruminate on them faithfully. And I can bear witness before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard any such thing, he would have cried out and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom, ‘O good God, for what times have you kept me, that I should endure these things?’ and would have fled even from the place where, sitting or standing, he had heard such words.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:227 · 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)

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Irenaeus, Letter to Florinus. ἂν (“would have”) is supplied after πεφεύγει (“fled”); the sense is the same without it.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (missing particle in the digital text): πεφεύγει → πεφεύγει ἂν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.20.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/20/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 5.20.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/5/20/7/).