Chrysostom, was completed in less than four years, according to the Publisher's Prospectus issued in 1886. VALESIUS: De vita scriptisque Eusebii Diatribe (in his edition of Eusebius' . Histaria Eccles.; English version in Cruse's translation of the same work ).
EUSEBIUS’ BIRTH AND TRAINING. HIS LIFE IN CAESAREA UNTIL THE OUTBREAK OF THE PERSECUTION
It is much more likely that the relationship was later assumed to be the reason for the two men's close intimacy. 19 Eusebius reports that he first saw Constantine in Caesarea in the train of Emperor Diocletian.
THE PERSECUTION OF DIOCLETIAN
He would hardly have made his acquaintance if he had not had a friend among the high officials of the city. As Stroth suggests, it is quite possible that his extremely excitable and violent temper was one of the causes of his defeat.
EUSEBIUS’ ACCESSION TO THE BISHOPRIC OF CAESAREA
The persecution of Licinius, which continued until his defeat by Constantine, in 323, was only local, and seems never to have been very severe. Palestine and Egypt do not seem to have suffered to any great extent (see Gorres, ib. p. 32 sq.).
THE OUTBREAK OF THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY
It is probable, but not certain, that our Eusebius is one of the persons referred to. In his letter to the Euphration, however, Eusebius seems at first glance to go further and give up the real divinity of the Son.
THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA
Eusebius' closeness with the imperial family is also shown in the tone of the letter he wrote to Constantia, Constantine's sister and Licinius' wife, in already discussed this.
CONTINUANCE OF THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY
Of the bishops assembled at the council, not far from three hundred in number (eyewitness reports vary from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and eighteen), all but two signed the Nicene Creed as adopted by the council. The result of the council was the removal of Eustathius from his episcopate and his banishment by the emperor to Illyria, where he later died.
EUSEBIUS AND MARCELLUS
He supported those members of the old Arian party who had subscribed to the Nicene Creed, and protested their acceptance of its teachings, against those members of the opposite party whom he believed were veering towards Sabellianism, or acting tyrannically and unjustly towards their opponents. That and Sabellian interest influenced him throughout, but his post-Nicene writings contain no evidence that he had fallen back into the Arianizing position he had held before 325.
THE DEATH OF EUSEBIUS
THE WRITINGS OF EUSEBIUS
EUSEBIUS AS A WRITER
Previously, he had not often enough clearly defined and drawn the boundaries of his subject. This is especially true of his Martyrs of Palestine, where his enthusiastic admiration for and deep sympathy with the heroes of the faith causes him to often forget himself and describe their suffering in language of genuine fire or pathos.
CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS
Another point, which was mentioned a few pages ago, and to which Lightfoot gives special attention, must be mentioned here, because of its bearing on the character of Eusebius' writings. Among modern works, the whole life of Eusebius, mentioned in the previous chapter, gives more or less extended catalogs of his writings.
HISTORICAL WORKS
This seems to indicate that the Life of Pamphilus was written after the longer, but before the shorter, recension of the Martyrs. The differences between the two reviews lie mainly in the greater detail of the longer version.
APOLOGETIC WORKS
On the numerous descendants of the ancients (peri< th~v pw~n palaiw~n ajndrw~n polupaidi>av). The subject of the work is the manifestation of God in the incarnation of the Word. On the theology of the Church, a refutation of Marcellus.
DOGMATIC WORKS
His extant part contains twelve chapters, which are partly devoted to a discussion of the nature of the Passover and its typical meaning, partly to a description of the solution of the Paschal question at the Council of Nicaea, and partly to an argument against the necessity of celebrating the Passover at the time of the Jewish Passover, on the ground that Christ himself is not celebrated the Passover on the same day as the Jews. This cycle may have been published (as Lightfoot notes) as part of the writing in question. The extant fragment, as published by Mai, was reprinted by Migne in Opera, VI.
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL WORKS
3, a reference to the questions and solutions addressed to Stephanus, while epitomized by the latter work (Quaest. The first edition, at least of the Questions ad Stephanum, must have been published before the Demonstratio Evangelica. The work must have been published .written after the end of the persecution and the death of the persecutors (in Psalm 36:12).
BIBLICAL DICTIONARIES
The work aims to give, in the original language, in alphabetical order, the names of the cities, towns, mountains, rivers, etc., mentioned in the Scriptures, together with their modern names and brief descriptions of each. He is proverbially careless and imprecise, and Eusebius, neither in his preface – from which Jerome quotes largely in his own – nor in the work itself gives any indication of the fact that his History and Chronicle had already been written. This work contains brief accounts of the various prophets and notes the subjects of their prophecies.
ORATIONS
It is to be identified with the speech delivered at the opening of the Council of Nicaea (Vita Const. 3:11), as mentioned above, on p. Neither the Oration on the Tomb of the Savior nor the Work on the Church and the Sepulcher (whether the same or not) are now extant. It was pronounced in Constantinople in 335 on the occasion of the emperor's tricennalia, very shortly after the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (see above, p. 25).
EPISTLES
SPURIOUS OR DOUBTFUL WORKS
EUSEBIUS’ CHURCH HISTORY
DATE OF ITS COMPOSITION
It is necessary to interpret both these clauses as later insertions (possibly by Eusebius' own hand at the time he added the tenth book; see also p. 30 above), or to reduce the composition of the ninth book to the year 319 or later. The nature of its history would at least lead us to think that Eusebius spent some years in its composition, and that the earlier books, if not published, were at least completed long before the publication of the Ten Books as a whole . . 13 Eusebius also speaks of his intention to recount the sufferings of the martyrs in another work (but see above, p. 30).
THE AUTHOR’S DESIGN
He wrote, as any modern historian would write, for the knowledge and instruction of his contemporaries and those who would come after him, but yet there was always in his mind a justifying purpose, a desire to reveal history to the world. The plan he proposed to himself is stated at the very beginning of his work: "My purpose is to write an account of the succession of the holy apostles, as well as of the times which have passed from the days of our Savior to our own; and to tell how many and how important events are said to have occurred in the history of the Church; and to mention those who governed and presided over the Church in the most distinguished parishes, and those who in every generation preached the word of God orally or in writing. It is my purpose, moreover, to relate the calamities which immediately came upon the whole Jewish nation because of their intrigues against our Saviour, and to record the ways and times in which the heathen attacked the divine word, and to describe the character of those who at different times contended for that with blood and torture, as well as the acknowledgments which have been made in our days, and finally the gracious and kind assistance which our Savior afforded them all.” We shall see that Eusebius had a very extensive idea of what would should comprise the history of the Church, and that he was fully aware of its importance.
EUSEBIUS AS A HISTORIAN
One of the most striking of these is his complete lack of any conception of. Such a consideration does not excuse Eusebius; however, it relieves him of the stigma of peculiarity. In this respect he compares favorably with at least most of the writers of antiquity.
EDITIONS AND VERSIONS
Although there may be disorder and confusion within the different periods, for example within the apostolic period, the age of Trajan, of Hadrian, of the Antonines, etc., the periods themselves are kept quite separate from each other, and after from which the author rarely returns. Even in his treatment of the New Testament canon, which is particularly offensive, he says most of what he has to say about it in connection with the apostles themselves, and before passing on to the second century. I will not overlook the extraordinary flagrantness of his clumsiness and repetition in his accounts of the writings of many of the fathers, especially of the two Clements, and yet I would emphasize the fact that he certainly had a plan of exposition which he devised has to follow, and for which due credit must be given to him.
The editio princeps is that of Robert Stephanus, which appeared at Paris in 1544, and again, with a few changes, and with the Latin translation
Only with our modern method of dividing history into periods, separated by natural boundary lines, and treating them under clearly defined headings, have we been able to avoid completely the confused and illogical treatment of Eusebius and others like him.
Henr. Valesius (de Valois) published his first edition of the Greek text, with a new Latin translation and with copious critical and explanatory
A new edition of the Greek text, of which, however, only the first part appeared, consisting of books I.-VII. Forty years later, Heinichen published a second edition of the History in his Eusebii Pamphili Scripta Historica (Lips vols.). The original Latin version was created by Rufinus in the early years of the fifth century.
LITERATURE
Crusae, an American Episcopalian of German descent, and was first published in Philadelphia in 1833, with a translation, by Parker, of Valesius's Life of Eusebius prefixed. It has been reprinted many times both in England and America, and is included in Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library. The latter contains one of the mildest attacks ever made on Eusebius' honesty (see above, p. 49).
TESTIMONIES OF THE ANCIENTS IN FAVOR OF EUSEBIUS
The first of them, in the six volumes of his Apology, proves that [Origen] was of the same opinion as he.” THE SAME SOCRATES, IN THE EIGHTH CHAPTER OF THE SAME BOOK, SPEAKS OF SABINUS, THE BISHOP OF MACEDONIA, WHO WRITTEN. On the twenty-first of June, the deposition of the holy bishop Eusebius in Caesarea.
TESTIMONIES OF THE ANCIENTS AGAINST EUSEBIUS
But your letter accuses them of saying that the Son was created as one of the creatures. They do not say this, but they clearly state that he was not like one of the creatures. Moreover, in the acts of the first Synod, he appears to have protected the faithful.
CONTENTS OF THE CHURCH HISTORY
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
THE CHURCH HISTORY OF EUSEBIUS
For he had a slow fever, and the itching of the skin all over his body was unbearable. He tells of these things in the eighteenth book of antiquity, where he writes of John i. The names of our Savior's apostles are known to every one from the Gospels.
INTRODUCTION
PHILO has given us in five books an account of the misfortunes of the Jews under Gaius. At this festival a great multitude of the highest and most honorable men of the province were assembled. For in the Acts of the Apostles, a work universally recognized as authentic, it is stated that all.