Church History 7.22.9 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Dindorf 4:321

καὶ “τὰ σώματα δὲ τῶν ἁγίων ὑπτίαις χερσὶ καὶ κόλποις “ὑπολαμβάνοντες, καθαιροῦντές τε ὀφθαλμοὺς, καὶ στόματα συγκλείοντες, ὠμοφοροῦντές τε καὶ διατι- ‘θέντες, προσκολλώμενοι, συμπλεκόμενοι, λουτροῖς “τε καὶ περιστολαῖς κατακοσμοῦντες, μετὰ μικρὸν “ἐτύγχανον τῶν ἴσων, ἀεὶ τῶν ὑπολειπομένων ἐφε- “πομένων τοῖς πρὸ αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

And taking up the bodies of the saints in their open hands and on their bosoms, closing their eyes and shutting their mouths, carrying them on their shoulders and laying them out, clinging to them, embracing them, adorning them with washings and grave clothes, they shortly after received the same services, those left behind always following those who went before.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:321 · 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)

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria. The digital text repeats τε.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word in the digital text; wrong accent in the digital text): ὠμοφοροῦντἐς → ὠμοφοροῦντές; λουτροῖς “τε τε → λουτροῖς “τε.

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/9/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.22.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/22/9/).