2:1
Πᾶσι μὲν οὖν ἀνθρώποις τὰ ἐκ τῆς τῶν τυράννων καταδυναστείας ἐλεύθερα ἦν, καὶ τῶν προτέρων ἀπηλλαγμένοι κακῶν ἄλλος ἄλλως μόνον ἀληθῆ θεὸν τὸν τῶν εὐσεβῶν ὑπέρμαχον ὡμολόγει, μάλιστα δ ἡμῖν τοῖς ἐπὶ τόν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ τὰς ἐλπίδας ἀνηρτημένοις ἄλεκτος παρῆν εὐφροσύνη, καί τις ἔνθεος ἅπασιν ἐπήνθει χαρὰ, πάντα τόπον τὸν πρὸ μικροῦ ταῖς τῶν τυράννων δυσσεβείαις ἠρειπωμένον ὥσπερ ἐκ μακρᾶς καὶ θανατηφόρου λύμης ἀναβιώσκοντα θεωμένοις, νεός τε αὖθις ἐκ βάθρων εἰς ὕψος ἄπειρον ἐγειρομένους, καὶ πολὺ κρείττονα τὴν ἀγλαίαν τῶν πάλαι πεπολιορκημένων ἀπολαμβάνοντας.
於是萬人都從暴君的轄制中得了釋放；他們既脫離了從前的禍患，各人就照各自的方式，承認那獨一的真神是敬虔之人的衛護者。但對我們這些把盼望繫於神的基督之人而言，尤有說不出的歡樂，一種屬神的喜樂在眾人身上煥發。我們看見每一處不久前被暴君的不敬虔所毀壞之地，如今彷彿從長久而致死的荼毒中復甦；又見諸殿宇從根基重新拔起，高聳至無可測度，並得著遠勝從前那被圍困之物的華美。
So then all men were freed from the oppression of the tyrants; and, delivered from their former ills, each in his own way confessed that the only true God was the Champion of the godly. But for us especially, who had hung our hopes upon the Christ of God, there was unspeakable gladness, and a kind of divine joy bloomed upon all, as we beheld every place that a little before had been laid in ruins by the impieties of the tyrants now coming back to life as from a long and deadly destruction, and temples again rising from their foundations to a boundless height, and receiving a splendour far surpassing that of those formerly besieged.
2:2
ἀλλὰ καὶ βασιλεῖς οἶ ἀνωτάτω συνεχέσι ταῖς ὑπὲρ Χριστιανῶν νομεθεσίαις τὰ τῆς ἐκ θεοῦ μεγαλοδωρεᾶς ἡμῖν εἰς μακρὸν ἔτι καὶ μεῖζον ἐκράτυνον, ἐφοίτα δὲ καὶ εἰς πρόσωπον ἐπισκόποις βασιλέως γράμματα, καὶ τιμαὶ καὶ χρημάτων δόσεις· ὧν οὐκ ἀπὸ τρόπου γένοιτ ἂν κατὰ τὸν προσήκοντα καιρὸν τοῦ λόγου, ὥσπερ ἐν ἱερᾷ στήλῃ, τῇδε τῇ βίβλῳ τὰς φωνὰς ἐκ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν μεταληφθείσας ἐγχαράξαι, ὡς ἂν καὶ τοῖς μεθ ἡμὰς ἅπασι φέροιντο διὰ μνήμης.
並且至高的眾皇帝，藉著為基督徒接連頒布的立法，將神向我們的厚賜更長久、更廣大地堅立；皇帝親自的書信也臨到眾主教，連同尊榮與金錢的賞賜。在這記述合宜之處，將這些文書的內容，從羅馬人的語言譯成希臘文，如同刻在聖碑上一般，銘記於此卷之中，使它們也得以存留在我們以後眾人的記念中，這並非不合宜。
Moreover the supreme Emperors, by continual legislation on behalf of the Christians, confirmed God's great bounty toward us yet more lastingly and more largely; and letters from the Emperor came in person to the bishops, with honours and gifts of money. It will not be out of place, at the proper point in this account, to engrave in this book—as upon a sacred monument—the texts of these documents, translated from the language of the Romans into Greek, that they may also be carried in memory to all who come after us.