SEARCH 19.6 MILLION WORDS
381 matching sections.
Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 42
… 7) he was called the "Standing one" (hinc ergo Stans appellatur). [258] Eusebius here utters the universal belief of the early Church, which from the subsequent career of Simon, who was considered the founder of …
1,245 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 146
… The school first comes out into the light of history at this time with Pantænus at its head, and plays a prominent part in Church history under Clement, Origen, Heraclas, Dionysius, Didymus, &c., until the …
2,135 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 304
… Metroph., and Eusebius, which see. Compare Schaff, Hist. of Church, 4 (1885), 636-642; Means, in Smith, Dict. 3 (1859), 347-355. (43) Constantinus Porphyrogenitus (c. VII.) (fl. 911-959). De thematibus. Ed. Bekker (Bonn …
2,231 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 87
… The light which the little document has thrown upon early Church history is very great, while at the same time the questions which it has opened are numerous and weighty. Although many points in regard …
2,280 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 1
… Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, and Prefaces to his translations of the Clementine Recognitions, the Sayings of Xystus, Eusebius's Church History, and several of Origen's works; translated, with notes, and an introduction on …
950 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 245
… Church over her pagan enemies. Had there been another persecution and another toleration edict between 325 and 338, we can hardly doubt that Eusebius would have added an account of it to his History. In …
2,353 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 3
… His condemnations of heretics in his Church History are most severe. Language is hardly strong enough to express his aversion for them. And yet, although he is thus most thoroughly the child of his age …
2,270 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 46
… In the same passage, Eusebius also remarks that this commendable custom had been continued in the Roman church up to his own time; and with that object collections were made there, of which Leo Magnus …
1,573 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 30
… And now, after this necessary introduction to our proposed history of the Church, we can enter, so to speak, upon our journey, beginning with the appearance of our Saviour in the flesh. And we invoke …
2,245 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 6
… Eusebius, surnamed Pamphilus, [109] writing the History of the Church [110] in ten books, closed it with that period of the emperor Constantine, when the persecution which Diocletian had begun against the Christians came to …
1,194 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 293
Preface to the Two Books of Ecclesiastical History, Added by Rufinus to His Translation of Eusebius. Addressed to Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia, a.d. 401. (For the occasion of writing, and the date, see Prolegomena …
2,208 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 194
… and Appion written out at length, which Eusebius in the third book of his Church history rejects. He died in the third year of Trajan and a church built at Rome preserves the memory of …
881 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 136
… Over against the distinct statement of the history, therefore, in the present instance, the notice in the Chron. is of no weight. Moreover, it is clear from the present passage that Eusebius had strong grounds …
1,097 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 183
… Undoubtedly the Old Testament owes partly to this principle of interpretation its adoption by the Christian Church. Had it been looked upon as the Jewish Scriptures only, containing Jewish national history, and in large part …
2,357 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 7
… The Chronicle of Eusebius would, if translated at all, find its place in the works of Eusebius. The Books on Church History and Controversy are given in full. Of the Letters, which, excepting the Vulgate …
2,423 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 139
… a) as to consecution of events, (b) as to sources, much as students would use a Church history to base their own studies upon. Socrates was a director to the authorities; these Sozomen would use …
2,352 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 4
… Though, as already noted, its ideal as a history is below that set up by Thucydides, Tacitus, and others of an earlier age,--below even that of Eusebius,--yet as a collection of facts and …
1,052 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 5
… Eusebius of Nicomedia were yet far from sharing the clearsighted definiteness of the few: they knew that the test proposed was not in Scripture, that it had a suspicious history in the Church. The history …
2,406 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 232
… Lipsius explains the eight months of the Church History and the Chron. as a change, in their original source, of years to mouths. The present error makes up in part for the error in chap …
2,204 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 14
… Jerome, in the preface to his version, says that Eusebius wrote the work after his History and Chronicle. We are to conclude, then, either that the work was published in 324 or early in 325 …
2,538 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 86
… Let us now proceed with our history. [778] This chapter is the only place in which Eusebius attempts to treat the canon systematically, and in it he is speaking purely as an historian, not as …
2,202 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 193
… in Eusebius' Præp. Evang. X. 10, and Dem. Evang. VIII., and especially in the Chronographia of Syncellus), and the Chronicon of Eusebius which is really based upon it, so that we are enabled to gain …
1,295 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 177
… The only one of the early Fathers to make a decided stand against the Apocrypha was Jerome; but he was not able to change the common view, and the Church continued (as the Catholic Church …
2,015 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 60
… He was writing, not a life of Paul, nor of any apostle or group of apostles, but a history of the planting of the Church of Christ. The advanced critics, who deny that the Acts …
2,143 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 102
… It is possible that the difference is owing, in part, to defective transcriptions or translations; but it is more probable that Eusebius himself discovered another source, before writing his History, which he considered more authentic …
1,305 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 4
… However that may be, Eusebius was already bishop at the time of the dedication of a new and elegant Church at Tyre under the direction of his friend Paulinus, bishop of that city. Upon this …
2,507 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 233
… 713). [2474] Theodotos: "God-given." [2475] Of Agapius we know only what Eusebius tells us in this passage. He was the immediate predecessor of Eusebius in the church of Cæsarea, and probably survived the persecution …
2,277 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 76
… Of these, five are by Moses, and contain the laws and the tradition respecting the origin of man, and continue the history [676] down to his own death. This period embraces nearly three thousand years …
2,269 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 77
… Church to unite against Gregory. You are acquainted with the history of the Arian madmen, beloved, for you have often, both individually and in a body, condemned their impiety; and you know also that Eusebius …
1,906 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 122
… 716. [1194] Eusebius here, as in chap. 16 above, ascribes to Justin a second Apology, from which, however, he nowhere quotes. From Eusebius the tradition has come down through history that Justin wrote two apologies …
1,518 words