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Church History 7.22.3

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

Summary: As at the death of Egypt's firstborn, every house has its dead.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:319–320

ὡς γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν πρωτοτόκων τῶν Αἰγυπτίων γέγραπται, οὕτως καὶ νῦν ἐγενήθη κραυγὴ μεγάλη. οὐ γάρ ἐστιν οἰκία, ἐν ᾗ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῇ τεθνη· κώς· καὶ ὤφελόν γε· πολλὰ μὲν γὰρ καὶ δεινὰ καὶ “τὰ πρὸ τούτου συμβεβηκότα.

English · Claude translation

For as it is written of the firstborn of the Egyptians, so now too ‘there was a great cry; for there is not a house in which there is not one dead.’ And would that it were only one! For many and terrible were the things that happened before this too.

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Source
Dindorf 4:319–320 · 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, citing Exod 12:30.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/3/).

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