Church History 6.44.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:294–295

ἕν δέ σοι τοῦτο παράδειγμα παρʼ ‟ἡμῖν συμβεβηκὸς ἐκθήσομαι. Σαραπίων τις ἦν ‟παρʼ ἡμῖν πιστὸς γέρων, ἀμέμπτως μὲν τὸν πολὺν “διαβιώσας χρόνον, ἐν δὲ τῷ πειρασμῷ πεσών. οὗτος ‘πολλάκις ἐδεῖτο, καὶ οὐδεὶς προσεῖχεν αὐτῷ, καὶ ‟γὰρ ἐτεθύκει· ἐν νόσῳ δὲ γενόμενος τριῶν ἐξῆς ἡμερῶν ἄφωνος καὶ ἀναίσθητος διετέλεσε.

English · Claude translation

“I shall set out for you this one example that happened among us. There was among us a certain Serapion, a faithful old man, who had lived blamelessly for a long time but had fallen in the trial. He often begged, and no one paid attention to him, for he had sacrificed. Falling ill, he continued speechless and unconscious for three days in succession.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:294–295 · 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, Letter to Fabius (to 6.44.6).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent in the digital text): αὐτῷ, καἰ → αὐτῷ, καὶ.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/2/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.44.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/44/2/).