Church History 9.7.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Tyre, seeing the Christians spreading again like a rekindled fire, turned at once to the emperor for help.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:426

ἰδοὺ τοίνυν ἡ ὑμετέρα πόλις, πάντων τῶν ἰδίᾳ “διαφερόντων αὐτῆς ἀμελήσασα, καὶ τὰς πρότερον “τῶν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς πραγμάτων δεήσεις παριδοῦσα, ὅτε “πάλιν ᾔσθετο τοὺς τῆς ἐπαράτου ματαιότητος γεγονότας “ἕρπειν ἄρχεσθαι, καὶ ὥσπερ ἀμεληθεῖσαν “καὶ κεκοιμημένην πυρὰν ἀναζωπυρουμένων τῶν “πυρσῶν μεγίστας πυρκαιὰς ἀναπληροῦσαν, εὐθέως “πρὸς τὴν ἡμετέραν εὐσέβειαν, ὥσπερ πρὸς μητρόπολιν “πασῶν θεοσεβειῶν, χωρίς τινος μελλήσεως “κατέφυγεν, ἴασίν τινα καὶ βοήθειαν ἀπαιτοῦσα·

English · Claude translation

See, then, your city, neglecting all its own private interests and passing over its former petitions about its own affairs, when it perceived again that the adherents of that accursed vanity were beginning to creep about, and like a neglected and smoldering pyre whose brands are rekindled, were making the greatest conflagrations, at once without any delay took refuge with our piety as with the mother city of all religion, asking for some cure and help.

About this passage

Source

Dindorf 4:426 · 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. 9.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/7/6/).

Plain text

Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/7/6/).