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Church History 7.10.6

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Macrianus made himself an enemy of the catholic church and fled far from salvation, as his name suggests.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:305

οὐ γὰρ συνῆκε τὴν καθόλου πρόνοιαν, οὐδὲ τὴν κρίσιν ὑπείδετο τοῦ πρὸ πάντων καὶ διὰ πάντων καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι. διὸ καὶ τῆς μὲν καθολικῆς αὐτοῦ ἐκκλησίας γέγονε πολέμιος, ἠλλοτρίωσε δὲ καὶ ἀπεξένωσεν ἑαυτὸν τοῦ ἐλέους τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ὡς πορρωτάτω τῆς ἑαυτοῦ “σωτηρίας ἐφυγάδευσεν, ἐν τούτῳ τὸ ἴδιον ἐπαλη- ῾θεύων ὄνομα.”

English · Claude translation

For he did not understand the general providence, nor did he suspect the judgment of him who is before all and through all and over all. Therefore he became an enemy of his catholic church, alienated and estranged himself from the mercy of God, and banished himself as far as possible from his own salvation, in this proving true his own name.”

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
  • Eph 4:6 · allusion, 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, alluding to Eph 4:6; the name Macrianus suggests μακράν, “far off.”

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/6/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/10/6/).

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