Church History 9.7.12 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christians who persist are to be expelled from Tyre and its territory, as the city asked.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:428

εἰ δὲ τῇ ἐπαράτῳ αὐτῶν μα- “ταιότητι ἐπιμένοιεν, ἐν πολλῷ πόρρωθεν τῆς ὑμε- “τέρας πόλεως καὶ περιχώρου, καθὼς ἠξιώσατε, “ἀποχωρισθέντες ἐξελαθήτωσαν, ἵνʼ οὕτως, κατʼ ἀκολουθίαν τῆς ἀξιεπαίνου ὑμῶν περὶ τοῦτο σπου- “δῆς, παντὸς μιάσματος καὶ ἀσεβείας ἡ ὑμετέρα πόλις κατὰ τὴν ἔμφυτον αὐτῇ πρόθεσιν ‘μετὰ τοῦ ὀφειλομένου σεβάσματος ταῖς τῶν ἀθανά- “των θεῶν ἱερουργίαις ὑπακούοι.

English · Claude translation

But if they persist in their accursed vanity, let them be separated and driven far away from your city and its territory, as you have asked, so that in this way, in keeping with your praiseworthy zeal in this matter, your city, freed from all pollution and impiety, may, according to its innate disposition, attend with due reverence to the sacred rites of the immortal gods.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:428 · 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

Persecution

Cite this passage

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.7.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/7/12/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.7.12 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/7/12/).