SEARCH 19.6 MILLION WORDS
381 matching sections.
Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 296
… and Eusebius and his fellows, overwhelmed with shame, buried their accomplice, while the blessed Alexander, amidst the rejoicings of the Church, celebrated the Communion with piety and orthodoxy, praying with all the brethren, and greatly …
1,653 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 127
… Of Dionysius himself (who is, without foundation, called a martyr by the Greek Church, and a confessor by the Latin Church) we know only what we are told by Eusebius, for Jerome (de vir ill …
2,148 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 234
… Both agree with the History in assigning nineteen years to his episcopate. An interesting and admirable epistle is extant addressed to Lucian, the chief chamberlain of the emperor, and containing advice in regard to the …
1,260 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 197
… Eusebius speaks of the heresy as extinguished in the very beginning, and it seems, in fact, to have played no prominent part in history; and yet it apparently lingered on for a long time in …
1,292 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 53
… Eusebius gives the tradition which rules in the Catholic Church, viz.: that Christianity was introduced into Rome by Peter, who went there during the reign of Claudius. But this tradition is sufficiently disproved by history …
1,271 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 118
… prominent character in the church of Smyrna, and the identification of the two seems to me beyond all reasonable doubt (see, also, Lightfoot, I. 353; II. 325 and 978). That Eusebius, however, wrote Alce is …
2,078 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 80
… Chapter XIII.--Of Eusebius, bishop of Samosata, and others. Of the courage and prudence shewn by Eusebius after he had received the imperial edict which commanded him to depart into Thrace, I think all who …
1,832 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 134
… Another aim of his history is to prove that Providence or the divine government is promoting the Christian faith directly. The universal order must be interpreting itself distinctly through the Church. The Father must be …
2,275 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 188
… The date at which the work was begun cannot be determined; but if Eusebius follows the chronological order of events, it cannot have been before 218 (see chap. 21, note 8). Eusebius speaks as if …
1,431 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 13
… On the Theology of the Church, a Refutation of Marcellus (hoi pros M?rkellon ?lenchoi peri tes ekklesiastikes Theologias). The occasion of this work is stated in the first chapter. In the previous work Eusebius …
2,284 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 127
… Eusebius (Ecclesiastical History, vi. 25) quotes Origen as saying, "My opinion is this: the thoughts are the apostle's; but the diction and phraseology belong to some one who has recorded what the apostle said …
714 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 1
… UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF 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 IV …
2,194 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 10
… which Eusebius has left us in writing; and we not unfitly have used it, but treating what he has said as an authority, have introduced it here for the fidelity of this history. With this …
2,222 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 23
… church, which it is not necessary to quote here. Testimonies of the Ancients Against Eusebius. From the Epistle of Arius to Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia (in Theodoret's Eccles. Hist. I. 5). [8] "Eusebius, your …
2,950 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 5
… Arius himself, in an epistle addressed to Eusebius of Nicomedia (Theodoret, H. E. I. 5), claims Eusebius of Cæsarea among others as accepting at least one of his fundamental doctrines ("And since Eusebius, your brother …
2,680 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 1
… Chrysostom, and the Church History of Eusebius. A few words are necessary to define the object of this Library, and its relation to similar collections. My purpose is to furnish ministers and intelligent laymen who …
1,090 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 513
… He is the first ecclesiastical historian; but his book was rather notes for an ecclesiastical history, than a history. 5. Dionysius was bishop of Corinth in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. He wrote letters to …
2,382 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 325
… He is quoted by Eusebius; [4951] and the traveller is reminded, when he visits the gorgeous Church of St. Paul on the Ostian Road, that so early an author as Caius may be cited as …
2,228 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 285
… 118, quoting from the lost Defense of Pamphilus and Eusebius. Eusebius himself tells us nothing about these proceedings in his History, but simply refers us (chap. 23) to the second book of his Defense, which …
3,032 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 111
… send a letter to a foreign church, but by the hands of one of his clergy. Whence Cyprian calls them literæclericæ." Antiquities, book iii. cap. ii. 3.] [854] Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., vi. 13; Phot. Bibl …
1,457 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 188
… the worst possible master, namely myself, and yet I must acknowledge that Eusebius Pamphilus in the ten books of his Church History has been of the utmost assistance, and the works of various among those …
1,240 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 107
… an excellent illustration of Eusebius' dualistic and transcendental conception of history. In his opinion, heresy was not a natural growth from within, but an external evil brought upon the Church by the devil, when he …
2,339 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 324
… To any one who compares the order of narration in the Church History, 9. 9, 11, the discussion will seem idle, though it is curious that the one most jealous and greedy of power should …
929 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 376
… Chapter XLV.--Various Discourses by the Assembled Bishops; also by Eusebius, the Writer of this History. Meantime the festival derived additional luster both from the prayers and discourses of the ministers of God, some of …
789 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 142
… On Eusebius' Collection of Martyrdoms, see above, p. 30. [1415] i.e. Antoninus Verus, whom Eusebius expressly distinguishes from Marcus Aurelius at the beginning of the next chapter. See below, p. 390, note. Chapter V …
2,240 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 69
… bishop of the church at Athens. 12. But the events connected with the apostolic succession we shall relate at the proper time. Meanwhile let us continue the course of our history. [601] Rom. xv. 19 …
2,200 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 4
… Conspicuous among the latter was a man of whom we shall hear much in the earlier treatises of this volume, Eusebius, bishop of Berytus, who had recently, against the older custom of the Church (p …
2,225 wordsThe Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 252
… of his ordination cannot be determined. Eusebius states (Hist. Eccl., v. 4) that he was, while yet a presbyter, sent with a letter, from certain members of the Church of Lyons awaiting martyrdom, to Eleutherus …
1,476 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 39
… In the history of the Christian Church it played an important part as a centre of Syrian learning. Ephraem, the Syrian, founded a seminary there in the fourth century, which after his death fell into …
2,280 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 122
… Among others who sought to avail themselves of his instructions in the principles of the Christian religion, were two young men, who afterwards became distinguished in the history of the Church,--Plutarch, who died the …
2,322 words