door, we find the ground floor entirely used as a store ; it is filled with large barrels of oil, the produce of tho rich country for many miles round ; this space, so far from being haljitable, is sometimes so dirty with the dripping of the oil that it is difficult to pick out a clean footing from the door to the first step of the staircase. On ascending, we find the first floor, consisting of a humble suite of rooms, not very high ; these are occu- pied by tlie family for their dailj' use. It is on the next story that all their expense is lavished; here my courteous host has appointed my lodging ; beautiful curtains, and mats, and cushions to the divan, displaj' the respect with which they mean to receive their guest ; here, likewise, their splendor, being at the top of the house, is enjoyed by the poor Greeks with more retirement and less chance of molestation from the in- trusion of the Turks ; here, when the professors of the college waited upon me to pay their respects, thej^ were received in ceremony and sat at the window. The room is both higher and also larger than those below; it has two projecting wnndows ; and the whole floor is so much extended in frcmt beyond the lower part of the building, that the projecting windows consideraljly overhang the street. In such an upper room — seclud- ed, spacious, commodious — Paul was invited to preach his parting discourse. The divan, or raised seat, with mats or cushions, encircles the interior of each project- ing window ; and I have remarlied, that when the com- pany is numerous, thej' sometimes place large cushions behind the company seated on the divan, so that a second tier of company, with their feet upon the seat of the divan, are sitting behind, higher than the front row. Eutychus, thus sitting, would be on a level with the open window, and, being overcome witli sleep, ho would easily fall out from the third loft of the house into the street, and be almost certain, from such a height, to lose his life. Thither Paul went down, and comforted the alarmed company bj' bringing up Eut}'- chus alive. It is noted that there were many lights in the upper chamber. The very great plenty of oil in this neigliborhood would enable them to afford many lamps ; the heat of these and so much companj^ would cause the drowsiness of Eutychns at that late hour, and be the occasion likewise of the windows being open." See House.
Evagrius Poiiticus (Evaypioc), monk and as- cetic writer, was born at Iberis, on the Black Sea, about A.D. 345. He was made deacon by Gregory of Nyssa or Gregorj- of Nazianzum, and received his the- ological culture to some extent under the latter, who took him to Constantinople in 379 or 380, and made him archdeacon. In the Origenistic controversies he took the side of Origen. After some experience of the dangers of personal beauty and vanit}', he renounced the world, assumed the monastic garb, and departed for Egypt in 383 or 384, where he lived as an ascetic up to the day of his death in (probably) 399. Socra- tes speaks very highly (//. E. iv, 23) of his character and writings, of which there remain, 1. JMoi'rtYof (in Cotelerius, Jlfon. Grirc. iii, 68) : — 2. 'AvTippi]riKor (in Pallad. Vita Chrysost. p. 349) : — 3. Reriim Mniuicka/iiim rationes ; and a few other tracts, collected in (Jalland. Bibl. Patrol, vii, 553 ; also in Migne, Patrol. Gnec. xl, 1219 sq. See Tillemont, Mi'moires, x, 368 ; Socrates, Hist. Eccl. iii, 7; iv, 23; Sozomen, Hist. Eccl. vi, 30; Cave, Hist. Lit. Anno 380.
Evagrius Scholasticus, the Church historian, was probably born at Epijilianeia, on the Orontes, in or al)out A.D. 5.'1(), and had a good education. He lived in Autiocli, where he was a lawj'er (scholasticus), whence his surname. He rendered essential service to the patriarch Gregory, whom he defended (against charges of adulters' and incest) at a synod in Constan- tinople, A.D. 589. He was made quivstonrm, as a re- ward for his professional skill, by the emperor Til)eri- us. Evagrius wrote A?i Ecclesiastical History, m con-
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tinuation of Eusebius and Theodoret, which extends from the Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431, to tlie twelfth year of the reign of the emperor Maurice, A.D. 593^. He is credulous and superstitious, but orthodox. The best edition, Gr. and Lat., is that of Valesius (Henri de Valois), which includes Eusebius and the other early Greek ecclesiastical historians (Par. 1G59-73, fol. ; re- printed, with some additional "variorum" notes, under the title Eccl. Scriptores cum notis Valesii et Reading, Cantab. 1720, 3 vols.) ; also in Migne, Patrol. Gra-ca, vol. Ixxxix; translated into English, A History of the Church, with an account of the Author andhis Writings, trans, by Iilercdith Hanmer, in Bagster's Eccl. Histori- ans (Lond. 6 vols. 8vo) ; and in Bohn's Eccles. Library (Loud. 1851, l-2nio) ; into German by RiJssler, in his BlU. d. Kirchenvdter, vol. vii (1775, 8vo). — Fabricius, Blbliotheca Graca, ed. Harles, ix, 284 sq. ; Hoftmann, Bibllog. Lexikon, ii, 37 ; Schaff, History of the Christian Church, iii, 882. Evangeliarium. See Evangelistary.
Evangelical, appertaining to, or characteristic of, the Go.^pel. (1.) The term " has been applied to a por- tion of the English Church who either profess, or are supposed to 'know and inculcate the GospeP in an es- pecial manner, and to give peculiar prominence to the doctrine of salvation bj' faith in the atonement. It is probably true that among this portion of the Church of England man}', but not all, maintain the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism ; and there may have been a time when (in the opinion of some) lower views of the sacraments and of Church authority prevailed among them than what are generallj^ received among other members of that Church. Very manj' persons lament the use of this term, and consider that, like all party ajjpellations, it tends to perpetuate division in the Church ; accordingly^, thej' desire that it should be dis- used as a party term, and carefully confined to its orig- inal meaning" (Eden).