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Church History 7.11.5

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

Summary: Dionysius refused, quoting Acts 5:29, and was banished to Cephro.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:306–307

ἀπεκρινάμην δὲ οὐκ ἀπεοικότως οὐδὲ μακράν “῾πειθαρχεῖν δεῖ θεῷ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώποις.᾿ ἀλλʼ “ἄντικρυς διεμαρτυράμην ὅτι τὸν θεὸν τὸν ὄντα “μόνον καὶ οὐδένα ἕτερον σέβω, οὐδʼ ἂν μεταθεί- “μην οὐδὲ παυσαίμην ποτὲ Χριστιανὸς ὤν. ἐπὶ “τούτοις ἐκέλευσεν ἡμᾶς ἀπελθεῖν εἰς κώμην πλησίον ‟τῆς ἐρήμου καλουμένην Κεφρώ.

English · Claude translation

I answered, not unfittingly nor at length, ‘We must obey God rather than men.’ And I testified openly that I worship the one who is the only God and no other, and that I would not change nor ever cease to be a Christian. Upon this he ordered us to go to a village near the desert called Cephro.

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Source
Dindorf 4:306–307 · 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.
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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)
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Extrabiblical texts
  • Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
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Persecution

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  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, citing Acts 5:29.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/5/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/11/5/).

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