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Church History 9.8.2

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

Summary: Maximin also provoked war with the Christian Armenians, old Roman allies, by trying to force them to sacrifice.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:429–430

τούτοις προσεπανίσταται τῷ τυράννῳ ὁ πρὸς Ἀρμενίους πόλεμος, ἄνδρας ἐξ ἀρχαίου φίλους τε καὶ συμμάχους Ῥωμαίων, οὓς καὶ αὐτοὺς Χριστιανοὺς ὄντας τὴν εἰς τὸ θεῖον εὐσέβειαν διὰ σπουδῆς ποιουμένους ὁ θεομισὴς εἰδώλοις θύειν καὶ δαίμοσιν ἐπαναγκάσαι πεπειραμένος ἐχθροὺς ἀντὶ φίλων καὶ πολεμίους ἀντὶ συμμάχων κατεστήσατο.

English · Claude translation

In addition to these, the war against the Armenians rose up against the tyrant, men who had been friends and allies of the Romans from of old. Since they too were Christians and zealous in their piety toward God, the God-hater tried to compel them to sacrifice to idols and demons, and so made enemies of friends and foes of allies.

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Source
Dindorf 4:429–430 · 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

Notes

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  • Digital text corrected (line-break hyphen left in the digital text): εὐσέ- βειαν → εὐσέβειαν.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/2/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 9.8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/9/8/2/).

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