Church History 6.40.7

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

Summary: Thinking them robbers, Dionysius offered them his clothes, but they told him to leave quickly.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:281–282

κἀγὼ μὲν, οἶδεν ὁ θεὸς, ὡς λῃστὰς εἶναι “πρότερον ἡγούμενος ἐπὶ σύλησιν καὶ ἁρπαγὴν “κομένους, μένων ἐπὶ τῆς εὐνῆς, ἧς ἤμην γυμνὸς ἐν “τῷ λινῷ ἐσθήματι, τὴν δὲ λοιπὴν ἐσθῆτα “μένην αὐτοῖς ὤρεγον, οἱ δὲ ἐξανίστασθαί τε ἐκέλευον καὶ τὴν ταχίστην ἐξιέναι.

English · Claude translation

And I — God knows — at first thinking they were robbers come for plunder and pillage, stayed on the bed where I was, naked but for my linen garment, and offered them the rest of my clothing lying beside me; but they bade me get up and go out as fast as possible.

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Source

Dindorf 4:281–282 · 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

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. Words are lost in the digital text (“come”, “lying beside me”).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/7/).

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