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Church History 7.11.13

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

Summary: At Cephro many pagans converted after first stoning them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:308

κἀκεῖ θύραν ἡμῖν ὁ θεὸς ἀνέῳξε τοῦ λόγου. καὶ “τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐδιώχθημεν, ἐλιθοβολήθημεν, ὕστε- “ρον δέ τινες οὐκ ὀλίγοι τῶν ἐθνῶν τὰ εἴδωλα κατα- “λιπόντες ἐπέστρεψαν ἐπὶ τὸν θεόν. οὐ πρότερον “γὰρ παραδεξαμένοις αὐτοῖς τότε πρῶτον διʼ ἡμῶν ‟ὁ λόγος ἐπεσπάρη.

English · Claude translation

And there God opened to us a door for the word. At first we were persecuted and stoned, but afterward not a few of the pagans left their idols and turned to God. For the word was then sown among them through us for the first time, since they had not received it before.

About this passage

Source
Dindorf 4:308 · 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
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 Col 4:3 and 1 Thess 1:9.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/13/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/13/).

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