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Church History 6.41.17

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

Summary: Macar was burned alive; Epimachus and Alexander, after long imprisonment and torture, were burned too.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:285–286

καί “τις ἕτερος, τὸ μὲν γένος Λίβυς, τὴν δὲ προσηγορίαν “ἅμα καὶ τὴν εὐλογίαν ἀληθὴς Μάκαρ, προτροπῆς “αὐτῷ πολλῆς ὑπὸ τοῦ δικαστοῦ πρὸς ἄρνησιν γενο- “μένης, οὐχ ὑπαχθεὶς ζῶν καταπέφλεκται. Ἐπίμα- “χός τε μετʼ αὐτοὺς καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος μετὰ πολὺν ὃν “ἔμειναν δεσμῶται χρόνον, μυρίας διενεγκόντες ἀλγη- “ δόνας, ξυστῆρας, μάστιγας, πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ καὶ οὗτοι “διεχύθησαν.

English · Claude translation

Another, a Libyan by race, truly Macar (“blessed”) in name and in blessing, though the judge urged him much to deny, was not won over and was burned alive. After them Epimachus and Alexander, after remaining in bonds a long time and enduring countless pains, scrapers and scourges, were also consumed in quicklime.

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Source
Dindorf 4:285–286 · 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

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Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/17/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.41.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/41/17/).

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