Church History 6.9.8 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The third confessed and wept until he went blind.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:252

ὁ δὲ τρίτος τὰς τῶν προτέρων συνιδὼν ἐκβάσεις, καὶ τοῦ πάντων ἐφόρου θεοῦ τρέσας τὴν ἀδιάδραστον δίκην, ὡμολόγει μὲν τοῖς πᾶσι τὰ κοινὴ σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἐσκαιωρημένα, τοσαύταις δὲ κατετρύχετο μεταμελόμενος οἰμωγαῖς, δακρύων τε ἐς τοσοῦτον οὐκ ἀπέλιπεν, ἕως ἄμφω διεφθάρη τὰς ὄψεις. καὶ οἵδε μὲν τῆς ψευδολογίας τοιαύτας ἐπέσχον τιμωρίας.

English · Claude translation

The third, seeing what had happened to the others and fearing the inescapable justice of God who oversees all, confessed to everyone what they had plotted together; but he was so worn down by his repentant lamentations and did not cease weeping until both his eyes were destroyed. Such were the punishments these men suffered for their lies.

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. 6.9.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/8/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.9.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/9/8/).