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Church History 7.21.4

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

Summary: Alexandria's streets are harder to cross than the wilderness, and its harbours red with blood like the Red Sea.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:317–318

τῆς γὰρ ἐρήμου τῆς πολλῆς “ἀτριβοῦς ἐκείνης, ἣν ἐν δυσὶ γενεαῖς διώδευσεν ὁ “Ἰσραὴλ, ἄπειρος μᾶλλον καὶ ἄβατός ἐστιν ἡ μεσαι- “τάτη τῆς πόλεως ὁδός· καὶ τῆς θαλάσσης, ἣν ἐκεῖνοι “ῥαγεῖσαν καὶ διατειχισθεῖσαν ἔσχον ἱππήλατον, καὶ “ὧυ ἐν τῇ λεωφόρῳ κατεποντίσθησαν Αἰγύπτιοι, οἱ “γαληνοὶ καὶ ἀκύμαντοι λιμένες γεγόνασιν εἰκὼν, “πολλάκις φανέντες ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς φόνων οἷον “ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα.

English · Claude translation

For the very middle street of the city is more untrodden and impassable than that great and trackless desert which Israel traversed in two generations; and the calm and waveless harbours have become an image of the sea which they found divided and walled up and made a road for horses, and in whose highway the Egyptians were drowned; for they often appear, from the murders in them, like a Red Sea.

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Source
Dindorf 4:317–318 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria, alluding to Exod 14–15.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/4/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/4/).

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