Church History 8.17.10

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

Summary: The edict ends by asking the Christians to pray to their God for the emperors, the state, and themselves.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:380–381

ὅθεν κατὰ ταύτην τὴν “συγχώρησιν τὴν ἡμετέραν ὀφείλουσι τὸν ἑαυτῶν “θεὸν ἱκετεύειν περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας τῆς ἡμετέρας καὶ “τῶν δημοσίων καὶ τῆς ἑαυτῶν, ἵνα κατὰ πάντα τρόπον καὶ τὰ δημόσια παρασχεθῇ ὑγιῆ, καὶ ἀμέ- “ριμνοι ζῆν ἐν τῇ ἑαυτῶν ἑστίᾳ δυνηθῶσι.”

English · Claude translation

“Wherefore, in accordance with this our indulgence, they ought to entreat their own God for our safety and that of the public and their own, so that in every way the public welfare may be preserved unharmed and they may be able to live without anxiety in their own homes.”

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:380–381 · 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, Prayer

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misread letters in the digital text): ἔνα κατὰ πάντα → ἵνα κατὰ πάντα.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/10/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.17.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/17/10/).

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