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Church History 9.11.8

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

Summary: The psalm warns not to trust in rulers, whose plans perish with them.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:446

“μὴ πεποίθετε ἐπʼ ἄρχοντας, ἐπὶ υἱοὺς ἀνθρώπων, οἶς οὐκ ἔστι σωτηρία· ἐξελεύσεται τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποστρέψει εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ· ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπολοῦνται πάντες οἱ διαλογισμοὶ αὐτῶν.’’

English · Claude translation

“Do not trust in rulers, in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit will go forth and he will return to his earth; in that day all their thoughts will perish.”

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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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 146:3–4 (145:3–4 LXX).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/8/).

Plain text
Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.11.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/11/8/).

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