Of his Chronicon it has also been justly asserted, " that for centuries it was the source of all syn- chronistical knowledge of history in the Greek, Lat- in, Oriental, and Christian world, ever3'where trans- lated, continued, excerpted, and made the basis of the diflPerent works on this subject." His panegyrical writings on Constantine, however, afford, with much that is commendable and historically useful, abundant proofs of the weakness of his moral fibre, and of his sycophancj' in dealing with the emperor. But it is to his credit that he never used his influence at court for merel}' personal ends. When Constantine on one oc- casion at Cajsarea asked Eusebius to demand a favor for his Church, he declared " his Church was not in need of any favors. The onh' boon he asked was per- mission to use the public archives to enable him to write a history of the martyrs, which favor was readily granted him" (Jerome, Ep. ad Chromatium et Ileliodo- rum; comp. Ilefele in the Freih. Kirchen-Lex. vi, 135 et sq.). Less important than the historical works of Eusebius, but nevertheless very meritorious, are his Apologeiical writings, the most extensive in ancient apologetics. His notices of the oldest mythologies in the Prwparatio Evangelica are a valuable storehouse for theologians and philologists. In the field of doc- trinal theolog}' (contra Marcellum) the writings of Eu- sebius apjjear to less advantage than in sa\y other. They touch upon the great question of his time, the Person of Christ. In these writings, as in his practi- cal life, he appears to waver between orthodoxy and subordinationism.
The writings of Eusebius are here classified as A. Historical ; B. Apologetic ; C. Dogmatic ; D. Exeget- ical.
A. Historical. — 1. The laropia iKK\i)aia(TTiKij, Eccle- siastical History, in ten books, beginning with the incar- nation of Christ, relates the history of the Church, in- cluding accounts of writers, martyrs, persecutions, etc., up to A.C. 324. It was probablj' composed be- fore the Nicene Council (325), as, near its close, Cris- pus, the eldest son of Constantine, is very favorably mentioned, which could hardly have happened after the execution of Crispus (325). The best editions of the History, with the Greek text, are Valesius, with life of Eusebius prefixed (Par. 1G59-1673, 3 vols, fol., often reprinted) ; Beading's edition of Valesius's Eu- sebius (Gr. and Lat.), with the fragments of Theodo- ret, I'^vagrius, and Philostorgius (Camb. 1720 and 1746, 3 vols, fob); Zimmermann, Hist. Eccles. (Fr.nicfort, 1822, Gr. and Lat., 2 vols. 8vo) ; Heinichen, Hist. Ec- cles., Reading's edition of Valesius, with Stroth's notes, and additional notes and indices by the editor (Leips. 1827-8, 3 vols. 8vo; also see below); Burton, Hist. Eccles. (Gr.) (Oxon, 1838, 1845, 1856, 8vo), also A-n^ notationes Variorum, 2 vols. 8vo (Oxon, 1842, 2 vols. 8vo) ; cheap edition bj^ Schwegler (TUl)ing. 1852, 8to) ; Laemnier, Hist. Eccles., cum tabulis specimina cod. vii cont. (SchaftTiausen, 1862, large Svo, pp. 836, with ta- bles in fob).
English Translations.— lianmer, Ch. Histoi-y of Euse- bius, Socrates, and Evagrius, with the Life and Pane- g^jvic of Constantine (Cambridge, 1577, and often, fob); the same, with Saltonstall's translation of The Life of Constantine (1650, fol. ; 1663, fol.) ; Wells (l)ased on the preceding, 1709, fob); Parker's abridged (Lend. 1729, 4to) ; best translation, Cruse's (with Boyle's Council of Nice, Philadelphia, 1846; 10th ed. N. Y. 1856, 8vo ; also in Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library, Lord, 12mo ; and in Bagster's Greek Eccl. HistoiiuJis, Lond. 1843, Svo).
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German Translations. — Hedion (Strasb. 1545, fol.) ; Stroth (Quedlinburg, 1777, 3 vols. 8vo) ; Closs (in two editions, one for Romanists, the other for Protestants, Stuttgart, 1839, 8vo). French translation bj' Cousin (Paris, 1G75, and often). On the Moscow MS. of the Ecd. Hist., see Zeiis. Hist. Theol. 1861, p. 311, and The- olog. Stud. u. Krit. 1858, heft iii.
2. The x{)oinicCiv Kavoviov TravroSaTr)) iffTopla, gen- erally called Chronicon, libb. ii, is an abridgment of the history of the world from its creation up to A.D. 325, with chronological tables, in which the chronog- raphy of Julius Africanus is largelj^ made use of. For the arbitrary changes made b}^ Eusebius in the text of Africanus, see Brunet de Presle, Dynasties Egyp- tiennes (Paris, 1850, 8vo). Of this chronicle there re- main fragments in Greek and two translations : one in Latin by Jerome, and one in Armenian. The latter was first edited by Zohrab (Milan, 1818), Latin, by A. Mai ; better ed. by Aucher (Lat. version from the Ar- menian, with the Greek fragments, Venet. 1818, 4to ; reprinted in Migne, Patrol. Grccc. torn, xix) ; new edi- tion by Schone (the Armenian translated by Peter- mann and Rodiger, Berlin, 18G6).
3. The Life of Constantine, £('<.' tuv jiiov KoJVffravTi- vov TOO l3a<n\UoQ Xoyoi iv ; de vita Constantini, lib. iv ; generally printed with the Ecclesiastical Hist, (see above) ; also separately, ed. by Heinichen, with Read- ing's and Stroth's notes, etc. (Leipsic, 1829, 8vo) ; En- glish translation in Bohn's Eccles. Library (London, 12mo).
4. Panegyi'ic on Constantine, alg KwvffTai'rlvov rpia- Kovra eT7)piKuc, an oration in praise of Constantine on the thirtieth anniversary of his accession ; generalh' printed with the Church History ; also in Heinichen' s Life of Constantine (see above, 3).
5. ^uyypajifia inpi rdv Kar' aurbv /.laprvpiaav- TMv, de marfyribus Palestinm ; really, de martyrihus suis temporis; containing reports of numerous martyrs of the Diocletian persecution (A.D. 30.3-310\ printed as an apjiendix to the eighth book of the Eccles. History ; specially interesting is Cureton's History of the Mar- tyrs of Palestine, by Eusebitis, discovered in a very an- cient Syrian MS., and transl. into English (Lend. 1860, 8vo) ; given also in Migne, Patrol. Grcec. tom. xx.