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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 141
… The way in which we ourselves read the history is that the Montanists had appealed to Rome; that the Church party solicited the good offices of their countrymen settled in Gaul, who wrote to Eleutherus …
936 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 84
… But this is a mistake, for Origen (quoted by Eusebius in VI. 25, below) states it just as distinctly as Eusebius does. The truth is, neither of them says it directly, and yet it is …
2,328 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 284
… In his Chronicle Eusebius keeps these two princes distinct, but in his History he falls into sad confusion in regard to them, and this confusion has drawn upon him the severe censure of all his …
2,399 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 67
… 477. [584] This Gospel is mentioned by Serapion as in use in the church of Rhossus (quoted by Eusebius, Bk. VI. chap. 12, below), but was rejected by him because of the heretical doctrines which …
2,323 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 124
… writers of the early Church. Jerome devotes an unusually long chapter of his de vir. ill. to him (chap. 35), but tells us nothing that is not found in Eusebius' History. His greatest work, and …
1,374 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 144
… myself, and write a history of the Church? For I am persuaded that, as the topic is not the achievements of men, it may appear almost incredible that such a history should be written by …
2,222 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 72
… During his imprisonment he enjoyed the affectionate attendance of Eusebius, the Church historian, and the tender friendship which subsisted long between the two is well known. It was as a memorial of that intimacy that …
2,245 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 141
… History of the Church by Sozomen and Philostorgius. The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen, comprising a History of the Church, from a.d. 324 to a.d. 440. Translated from the Greek, with a memoir of …
2,202 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 140
… Some wonderful change came over his purpose, whether that were a fuller view of the relation between state and church, or the desire to deepen the impression of his philosophy of history; or did some …
2,307 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 138
… And so with the history of literature there is no such sustained account of Christian writers and works as in Eusebius; the second stage of historians did not see fit to be as complete and …
1,798 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 274
… Church, history of, written by Eusebius, [460]1; relations to State, [461]118. Churches, at Nicæa, [462]8; at Constantinople, [463]21, [464]38, [465]43, [466]66, [467]67, [468]73, [469]96, [470 …
852 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 98
… None will deny that there may have been some men of prominence in the Church at this time, but Eusebius apparently had no more information to impart in regard to them than he gives us …
1,176 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 75
… the Church and her virgins, and is now Prefect [454] of Egypt, an apostate already, and a fellow-countryman of Gregory, a man too of no respectable character, and moreover supported by Eusebius and his …
2,263 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 208
… In this seventh book of the Church History, the great bishop of Alexandria, Dionysius, [2160] shall again assist us by his own words; relating the several affairs of his time in the epistles which he …
1,726 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 211
… This is the only place in which the name Novatian occurs in Eusebius' History, and here it is used not by Eusebius himself but by Dionysius. Eusebius, in referring to the same man, always calls …
1,001 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 211
… John, [2562] presbyter of the church at Antioch, a follower of Eusebius of Emesa and Diodorus, is said to have composed many books, but of these I have only read his On the priesthood. [2562 …
1,249 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 123
… Eusebius [1879] states that he had formerly been an adherent of the Valentinian heresy, but had been converted by the arguments and eloquence of Origen to the orthodox faith of the Church. They became intimate …
2,283 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 55
… virgins growing old within the Church, is almost inexplicable. It is but another example of his carelessness in regard to chronology which comes out so often in his history. Compare Stroth's words: "In der …
1,328 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 77
… The date of Symeon's accession (assuming that he did take charge of the Jerusalem church as James had done) cannot be fixed. Eusebius himself, as he informs us in Bk. IV. chap. 5, although …
1,338 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 56
… It was decided therefore that Lucifer should go to Antioch in Syria, and Eusebius to Alexandria, that by assembling a Synod in conjunction with Athanasius, they might confirm the doctrines of the church. Lucifer sent …
1,401 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 159
… Eusebius, in his History, does not state directly the duration of his episcopate, but in chap. 28 he says that Zephyrinus succeded him about the ninth year of Severus, i.e. according to his erroneous …
1,484 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 269
… 48, and in a Greek translation in Eusebius' History, Bk. X. chap. 5, below. For a discussion of its date and significance, see the notes upon that chapter. [2766] This epistle or rescript (Eusebius calls …
1,095 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 305
… Manual of Universal Church History. Tr. Pabisch and Byrne. Cincinnati, O., 1874. 3 v. 8°, p. 462-476. Relations of Constantine the Great to the Catholic Church. Very Roman Catholic. Andlau, Fr. von. Die byz …
1,969 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 337
… Latin Church, sophistries of, 62. Life, human shortening of, 71. Logos, 67, 68. Magic, 65. Man, fall of, 67. Marriage, 62. Marsyas, 65. Matter, not eternal, 67. Mill, reference to, 61. Modern science anticipated, 67 …
1,278 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 25
… It is worked out with ingenuity, but with insufficient knowledge of general Church history. It appears to be adopted wholesale by Eichhorn in his otherwise critical and excellent Athanasii de vita ascetica testimonia (see below …
2,420 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 128
… Maximinus, [1271] the seventh from the apostles, succeeded him as bishop of the church of Antioch. [1266] Eusebius is the only Eastern writer of the early centuries to mention Theophilus and his writings. Among the …
1,481 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 227
… There are ten books of the ecclesiastical history which he wrote in imitation of Eusebius of Cæsarea beginning where Eusebius ends and extending to his own time, that is from the Vicennalia of Constantine until …
755 wordsJerome — Principal Works • SECTION 243
… works bearing on Church history or Scripture. 2d. The Prefaces to the Vulgate translation. 3d. Those prefixed to the Commentaries. Prefaces to Jerome's Early Works. Preface to the Chronicle of Eusebius. The "Chronicle" is …
1,669 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 186
… For the period after the end of Eusebius' Church History it is of prime value. 1. Time and Place of Composition, and Character. 1. The work of Jerome was written at Bethlehem in 492. It …
2,242 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 30
… Alexander must therefore have died before 339. [266] So called, not because there was a saint or eminent person of that name, but on the same principle as the church called Sophia. For the history …
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