Church History 8.10.7

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

Summary: The persecutors treated the Christians as though they no longer existed.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:363

οὐ γὰρ εἶναι κἂν μέρος φροντίδος αὐτοῖς περὶ “ἡμῶν, ἀλλʼ οὕτω καὶ διανοεῖσθαι καὶ πράττειν, “ὡς μηκέτʼ ὄντων, ταύτην δευτέραν ἐπὶ ταῖς πληγαῖς τῶν ὑπεναντίων ἐφευρόντων.

English · Claude translation

“For they said that they had not the least concern for us, but thought and acted as though we no longer existed, our adversaries having invented this second torment on top of the blows.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:363 · 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

Phileas continues.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/10/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.10.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/10/7/).

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