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Church History 9.10.5

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

Summary: The psalm says kings and warriors are not saved by strength, but God rescues those who fear him.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:440

“οὐ σώζεται βασιλεὺς διὰ δύναμιν, καὶ γίγας οὐ σωθήσεται ἐν πλήθει ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ· ψευδὴς ἵππος εἰς σωτηρίαν, ἐν δὲ πλήθει δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ οὐ σωθήσεται. ἰδοὺ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ κυρίου ἐπὶ τοὺς φοβουμένους αὐτὸν, τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ, ῥύσασθαι ἐκ θανάτου τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν.”

English · Claude translation

“A king is not saved by his power, and a giant will not be saved by the greatness of his strength; a horse is a false hope for salvation, and by the greatness of its power it will not be saved. Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, who hope in his mercy, to deliver their souls from death.”

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Source
Dindorf 4:440 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 33:16–19 (32:16–19 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/5/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/10/5/).

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