Church History 7.15.1

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

Summary: In peacetime, the officer Marinus was beheaded at Caesarea.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:313

Κατὰ τούτους εἰρήνης ἁπανταχοῦ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν οὔσης, ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Παλαιστίνης Μαρῖνος τῶν ἐν στρατείαις ἀξιώμασι τετιμημένων, γένει τε καὶ πλούτῳ περιφανὴς ἀνὴρ, διὰ τὴν Χριστοῦ μαρτυρίαν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτέμνεται, τοιᾶσδε ἕνεκεν αἰτίας.

English · Claude translation

In their time, when there was peace everywhere for the churches, at Caesarea in Palestine Marinus, one of those honoured with military rank, a man distinguished by birth and wealth, was beheaded for his testimony to Christ, for the following reason.

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Source: Dindorf 4:313 · 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)
Topics: Martyrdom

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/15/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/15/1/).

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