Church History 6.40.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:282

καὶ τότε συνεὶς ἐφʼ ᾧ παρῆσαν ἀνέκραγον δεόμενος αὐτῶν καὶ “ἱκετεύων ἀπιέναι καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐᾶν, εἰ δὲ βούλονταί τι χρηστὸν ἐργάσασθαι, τοὺς ἀπάγοντάς με φθάσαι, “καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοὺς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀποτεμεῖν ἠξίουν. “καὶ τοιαῦτα βοῶντος, ὡς ἴσασιν οἱ κοινωνοί μου καὶ “μέτοχοι πάντων γενόμενοι, ἀνίστασαν πρὸς βίαν, “κἀγὼ μὲν παρῆκα ἐμαυτὸν ὕπτιον εἰς τοὔδαφος, οἱ “δὲ διαλαβόντες χειρῶν καὶ ποδῶν σύροντες “γαγον.

English · Claude translation

Then, understanding why they had come, I cried out, begging and entreating them to go away and leave us alone; and if they wished to do some good, I asked them to forestall those who were taking me away and cut off my head themselves. While I was shouting such things, as my companions, who shared in everything, know, they raised me up by force. I let myself fall on my back on the ground, but they took me by hands and feet, dragged me out and led me away.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:282 · 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

Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. The digital text reads ἐὰν for ἐᾶν (“to leave”).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐὰν → καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐᾶν.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.40.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/40/8/).