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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 17

Book I.

Eusebius of Palestine [236] has written a history of the Church from the time of the holy Apostles to the reign of Constantine, the prince beloved of God. I shall begin my history from the …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 37

Chapter XI.--Testimonies in Regard to John the Baptist and Christ.

Church History, Vol. I. p. 9 sq., and Edersheim's article on Josephus in Smith and Wace's Dict. of Christian Biography. Compare also Heinichen's Excursus upon the passage in his edition of Eusebius

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 1

Introduction and Synoptical TAble

… Serapion, Bishop of Antioch 190-203, writing to the church at Rhossus, says (Eusebius, H. E., vi., 12, 2): "We, brethren, receive Peter and the other Apostles even as Christ; but the writings that go …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 215

Chapter XIV.

church the greater part of the Greek literature; translating the works of Basil of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, Gregory Nazianzan, that most eloquent man, the Recognitions of Clement of Rome, the Church history of Eusebius of …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 30

Chapter XII.--Exhortation to various graces.

… Great part of it has been engrossed by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History (iv. 15); and it is instructive to observe, that some of the most startling miraculous phenomena recorded in the text as it …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 206

Chapter LXXXI.

… Demonstrations of the Gospel twenty books, Preparations for the Gospel fifteen books, Theophany [2504] five books, Church history ten books, Chronicle of Universal history and an Epitome of this last. Also On discrepancies between the …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 186

Chapter XXII.--The Works of Hippolytus which have reached us.

… The earliest mention of him is by Eusebius in this passage and in chap. 20, above. But Eusebius tells us there only that he was a bishop of "some other church" (heteras pou ekklesias), and …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… Edited by PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK. AND HENRY WACE, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. VOLUME VIII BASIL: LETTERS AND …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 10

[87] Ep. XCVII.

… There exist also his books of Ecclesiastical History, which he wrote in imitation of Eusebius of Cæsarea, beginning from the end of the books of Eusebius down to his own time, viz.: from the twentieth …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 275

Council, an ecumenical first summoned, [610]8; appeal to, [611]149.

Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea, surnamed Pamphilus, writes a history of the Church, [881]1; quoted, [882]6, [883]8, [884]9; retracts his dissent from the Nicene Creed, [885]10; his views of the Creed …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 133

Chapter XXVIII.--Musanus and His Writings.

… The dates in the Chron. (whichever be taken as original) and in the History are not mutually exclusive; at the same time it is clear that Eusebius was not working upon the same information in …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 280

Church and State, [2845]208; in persecution, [2846]210; united, [2847]244.

… Consubstantiality of Son, broached, [2956]251; defended by Alexander of Alexandria against Arius, [2957]251; becomes the faith of the church, [2958]255; dispute over meaning of word, [2959]270; evaded by partisans of Eusebius

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 185

Chapter XX.--The Extant Works of the Writers of that Age.

… We do not know the subsequent history of this library of Alexander, but it had already been in existence nearly a hundred years when Eusebius examined it. [1934] On Beryllus, bishop of Bostra in Arabia …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 100

Chapter XXXIX.--The Writings of Papias.

… See the note of Schaff in his Church History, II. p. 697 sq. A careful exegesis of the passage from Papias quoted by Eusebius seems, however, to lead necessarily to the conclusion which Eusebius draws …

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