Church History 9.11.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Maximin's children and relatives were also killed in disgrace, having ignored Scripture's warning.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:446

τούτοις ἅπασι προσετίθεντο καὶ οἶ Μαξιμίνου παῖδες, οὓς ἤδη καὶ τῆς βασιλικῆς τιμῆς, τῆς τε ἐν πίναξι καὶ γραφαῖς ἀναθέσεως πεποίητο κοινωνούς· καὶ οἱ συγγενεῖς δὲ τοῦ τυράννου, τὸ πρὶν αὐχοῦντες καὶ πάντας ἀνθρώπους καταδυναστεύειν ἐπηρμένοι, τὰ αὐτὰ τοῖς προδεδηλωμένοις μετὰ τῆς ἐσχάτης ἀτιμίας ἔπασχον, ἐπεὶ μὴ ἐδέξαντο παιδείαν, μηδὲ ἔγνωσαν μηδὲ συνῆκαν τὴν φάσκουσαν ἐν ἱεροῖς λόγοις παρακέλευσιν

English · Claude translation

To all these were added also the children of Maximin, whom he had already made sharers in the imperial honor and in the display of portraits and pictures. And the tyrant's relatives, who formerly boasted and were puffed up to lord it over all people, suffered the same as those already mentioned, with the utmost dishonor, since they had not received instruction, nor known or understood the exhortation that says in the sacred words:

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Source

Dindorf 4:446 · 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)

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/7/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/7/).