Church History 9.1.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Crowds sang psalms in the streets, exiles returned joyfully, and even former persecutors rejoiced with them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:421

στίφη δʼ οὖν πολυάνθρωπα κατὰ μέσας λεωφόρους καὶ ἀγορὰς, ᾠδαῖς καὶ ψαλμοῖς τὸν θεὸν ἀνυμνοῦντα, τὰ τῆς πορείας ἤνυε. καὶ τοὺς μετὰ τιμωρίας ἀπηνεστάτης μικρῷ πρόσθεν δεσμίους τῶν πατρίδων ἀπεληλαμένους εἶδες ἂν ἱλαροῖς καὶ γεγηθόσι προσώποις τὰς αὐτῶν ἑστίας ἀπολαμβάνοντας, ὡς καὶ τοὺς πρότερον καθʼ ἡμῶν φονῶντας, τὸ θαῦμα παρὰ πᾶσαν ὁρῶντας ἐλπίδα, συγχαίρειν τοῖς γεγενημένοις.

English · Claude translation

Great crowds made their way along the middle of the highways and marketplaces, praising God with odes and psalms. And you would have seen those who a little before had been driven in chains from their homelands under most cruel punishment receiving back their own hearths with bright and joyful faces, so that even those who had formerly thirsted for our blood, seeing the wonder beyond all hope, rejoiced with them at what had happened.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:421 · 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

Prayer

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/11/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.1.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/1/11/).