Church History 8.7.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Eusebius knew the Egyptian martyrs in Palestine and Tyre, who endured scourging and were exposed to leopards, bears, boars, and bulls.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:357

Ἴσμεν γοῦν τοὺς ἐξ αὐτῶν διαλάμψαντας ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ, ἴσμεν δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἐν Τύρῳ τῆς Φοινίκης, οὓς τίς ἰδὼν οὐ κατεπλάγη τὰς ἀναριθμήτους μάστιγας, καὶ τὰς ἐν τούτοις τῶν ὡς ἀληθῶς παραδόξων τῆς θεοσεβείας ἀθλητῶν ἐνστάσεις, τόν τε παραχρῆμα μετὰ τὰς μάστιγας ἐν θηρσὶν αἱμοβόροις ἀγῶνα, καὶ τὰς ἐν τούτῳ παρδάλεων καὶ διαφόρων ἄρκτων, συῶν τε ἀγρίων καὶ πυρὶ καὶ σιδήρῳ κεκαυτηριασμένων βοῶν προσβολὰς, καὶ τὰς πρὸς ἕκαστον τῶν θηρίων θαυμασίους τῶν γενναίων ὑπομονάς;

English · Claude translation

We know, at any rate, those of them who shone in Palestine, and we know also those in Tyre of Phoenicia. Who that saw them was not amazed at the numberless scourgings, and the steadfastness under them of those truly marvelous athletes of godliness; and the contest with bloodthirsty beasts immediately after the scourgings, the attacks of leopards and various bears, wild boars and bulls goaded with fire and iron; and the marvelous endurance of these noble people before each of the beasts?

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:357 · 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, Persecution

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/7/1/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 8.7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/8/7/1/).