Church History 6.39.2

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

Summary: Alexander of Jerusalem, now very old, confessed again and was imprisoned.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:279

ἐπὶ δὲ Παλαιστίνης Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ τῆς Ἱεροσολύμων ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπος, αὖθις διὰ Χριστὸν ἐν τῇ Καισαρείᾳ ἡγεμονικοῖς παραστὰς δικαστηρίοις, καὶ ἐπὶ δευτέρᾳ διαπρέψας ὁμολογίᾳ, δεσμωτηρίου πειρᾶται, λιπαρῷ γήρει καὶ σεμνῇ πολιᾷ κατεστεμμένος.

English · Claude translation

In Palestine, Alexander, bishop of the church of Jerusalem, again appeared for Christ's sake before the governor's courts at Caesarea, and after distinguishing himself in a second confession, underwent imprisonment, crowned with a ripe old age and venerable grey hairs.

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Source: Dindorf 4:279 · 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: Persecution, Martyrdom

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.39.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/39/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.39.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/39/2/).

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