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Church History 7.15.2

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

Summary: When Marinus was due for promotion to centurion, a rival accused him of being a Christian.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:313–314

τιμή τίς ἐστι παρὰ Ρωμαίοις τὸ κλῆμα, οὗ τοὺς τυχόντας φασὶν γίνεσθαι. τόπου σχολάζοντος, ἐπὶ τοῦτο προκοπῆς τὸν Μαρῖνον ἡ τοῦ βαθμοῦ τάξις ἐκάλει. ἤδη τε μέλλοντα τῆς τιμῆς ἔχεσθαι, παρελθὼν ἄλλος πρὸ τοῦ βήματος, μὴ ἐξεῖναι μὲν ἐκείνῳ τῆς ῾Ρωμαίων μετέχειν ἀξίας κατὰ τοὺς παλαιοὺς νόμους, Χριστιανῷ γε ὄντι καὶ τοῖς βασιλεῦσι μὴ θύοντι, κατηγόρει· αὐτῷ δὲ ἐπιβάλλειν τὸν κλῆρον.

English · Claude translation

There is a certain honour among the Romans, the vine-staff, whose holders, they say, become centurions. A place being vacant, the order of rank called Marinus to this promotion. When he was already about to receive the honour, another came forward before the tribunal and accused him, saying that by the ancient laws he could not share in a Roman dignity, being a Christian and not sacrificing to the emperors, and that the office fell to himself.

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Source
Dindorf 4:313–314 · 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
Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

  • The words “become centurions” (ἑκατοντάρχας) are lost in the digital text and supplied from the sense.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/15/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/15/2/).

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