Church History 8.6.4

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

Summary: The servant, named Peter (“rock”), died unshaken under torture.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:355

ὁ δʼ ἀπρὶξ ἐχόμενος τῆς προθέσεως νικηφόρος ἐν αὐταῖς παρέδωκε τὴν ψυχὴν ταῖς βασάνοις. τοιοῦτον τῶν βασιλικῶν ἑνὸς τὸ μαρτύριον παίδων, ἄξιον ὡς ὄντως καὶ τῆς προσηγορίας· Πέτρος γὰρ ἐκαλεῖτο.

English · Claude translation

But he, holding fast to his purpose, gave up his soul victorious in the midst of the tortures. Such was the martyrdom of one of the imperial servants, truly worthy of his name: for he was called Peter.

About this passage

Source: Dindorf 4:355 · 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: Martyrdom

Notes

Translation notes

The play is on Peter, “rock.”

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/6/4/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/6/4/).

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