Church History 6.9.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Divine justice fulfilled the first two perjurers' curses: one burned, one was diseased.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:252

ἀλλʼ οὐ καὶ ὁ τῆς δίκης μέγας ὀφθαλμὸς ἐπὶ τοῖς πεπραγμένοις ἠρέμει, μετῄει δὲ ὡς τάχιστα τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς αἷς καθʼ ἑαυτῶν ἐπιορκοῦντες κατεδήσαντο ἀραῖς. ὁ μὲν οὖν πρῶτος, ἐκ μηδεμιᾶς προφάσεως ἁπλῶς οὕτω σμικροῦ διαπεσόντος ἐφʼ ἧς κατέμενεν οἰκίας σπινθῆρος, νύκτωρ ὑφαφθείσης ἁπάσης, παγγενῆ καταφλέγεται. ὁ δὲ ἀθρόως τὸ σῶμα ἐξ ἄκρων ποδῶν ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν, ἧς αὐτὸς προσετίμησεν ἑαυτῷ, νόσου πίμπλαται.

English · Claude translation

But the great eye of justice did not stay quiet at what had been done, but very quickly pursued the impious with the curses by which they had bound themselves in their perjury. The first, from no cause at all, simply when a little spark fell in the house where he was staying, the whole house was set on fire at night, and he was burned with all his family. The second was suddenly filled from head to foot with the disease he had invoked on himself.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:252 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/7/).