Church History 6.42.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:288

εἶτα τούτοις ἐπιφέρει μετὰ βραχέα λέγων ‘αὐτοὶ τοίνυν οἶ “θεῖοι μάρτυρες παρʼ ἡμῖν, οἷ νῦν τοῦ “πάρεδροι καὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ κοινωνοὶ καὶ “μέτοχοι τῆς κρίσεως αὐτοῦ καὶ συνδικάζοντες αὐτῷ, “τῶν παραπεπτωκότων ἀδελφῶν τινὰς ὑπευθύνους “τοῖς τῶν θυσιῶν ἐγκλήμασι γενομένους προσελά- “βοντο, καὶ τὴν ἐπιστροφὴν καὶ μετάνοιαν αὐτῶν “ἰδόντες, δεκτήν τε γενέσθαι δυναμένην τῷ μὴ βου- “λομένῳ καθόλου τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἁμαρτωλοῦ ὡς “τὴν μετάνοιαν δοκιμάσαντες, εἰσεδέξαντο καὶ συνή- “γαγον καὶ συνέστησαν, καὶ προσευχῶν αὐτοῖς καὶ “ἑστιάσεων ἐκοινώνησαν.

English · Claude translation

Then shortly after he adds: “These divine martyrs among us, who now sit beside Christ as assessors and share his kingdom and partake of his judgment and judge with him, took up some of the brothers who had fallen away and become liable to the charge of sacrificing. Seeing their conversion and repentance, and judging it such as could be accepted by him who does not at all desire the death of the sinner but his repentance, they received them, gathered them in, united them with themselves, and shared with them in prayers and meals.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:288 · 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)

Scripture

Ezek 33:11 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 19:28 · echo, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Martyrdom, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, alluding to Ezek 33:11 and to the martyrs judging with Christ (1 Cor 6:2; Matt 19:28). The word “Christ” is lost in the digital text.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.42.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/42/5/).