Book 8 — Chapter 12 - Many Others, Ishim and Ishot, Who Suffered
Book VIII is Eusebius's eyewitness generation: the Great Persecution, destruction of meeting houses, imprisonment, torture, martyrdom, political reversals, and the first imperial revocation. The chapter records coercion under Roman or local authority: arrest, interrogation, confiscation, exile, torture, execution, or public pressure. Eusebius praises endurance but also records those who yielded, fled, or were later restored. In this reconstruction the chapter coordinate is preserved as Book 8, Chapter 12, and the full subject is retained under the heading 'Many Others, Ishim and Ishot, Who Suffered'. Names, dates, quoted-source relationships, and political or textual function are kept distinct from Eusebius's own interpretive claims.