Church History 7.10.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:305

καὶ τούτοις γε ἐπιφέρει λέγων ‘καλὰ γοῦν αὐτοῖς Μακριανὸς τῆς ‟ἐλπιζομένης βασιλείας προσήνεγκε χαριστήρια, ὃς πρότερον μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν καθόλου λόγων λεγόμενος ‟εἶναι βασιλέως οὐδὲν εὔλογον οὐδὲ καθολικὸν ἐφρό- ‟νησεν, ἀλλʼ ὑποπέπτωκεν ἀρᾷ προφητικῇ τῇ λεγούσῃ ‘οὐαὶ τοῖς προφητεύουσιν ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ καθόλου μὴ βλέπουσιν.’

English · Claude translation

To this he adds: “Fine thank-offerings, then, did Macrianus bring them for the empire he hoped for. He was formerly said to be the emperor's minister of the general accounts, but he had no reasonable or catholic thought; he fell under the prophetic curse that says, ‘Woe to those who prophesy from their own heart and do not see the general good.’

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:305 · 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 13:3 · quotation, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

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

Topics

Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, loosely citing Ezek 13:3; Dionysius plays on καθόλου (“general”) and καθολικός (“catholic”).

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/5/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/5/).