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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 89

Letter LXX. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.

… We still have the works of Dionysius [2174] bishop of Alexandria, of Anatolius [2175] chief priest of the church of Laodicea, of the presbyters Pamphilus, [2176] Pierius, [2177] Lucian, [2178] Malchion; [2179] of Eusebius [2180 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 236

Chapter II.--The Destruction of the Churches.

… We must therefore take the words used by Eusebius in the general sense of "church officers." According to Lactantius, their families suffered with them (cum omnibus suis deducebantur), but Eusebius says nothing of that. [2507 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 71

[1313] In Eusebius, Hist. Eccles., viii. 10.

… 11-17, where is given the Fragment of a History of the Meletian Schism. See Neander's important remarks on this whole document, Church History, iii. p. 310 (Bohn).--Tr. [1327] Zelo meliorum. [1328] [Parishes …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 51

Chapter XIII.--Simon Magus. [360]

… 1), played a very prominent role in early Church history. His life has been so greatly embellished with legends that it is very difficult to extract a trustworthy account of him. Indeed the Tübingen school …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 115

Introduction to the de Sententia Dionysii.

… His letters are much used in the sixth and seventh books of the History of Eusebius, to whom we are indebted for most of our knowledge of his writings. The general arrangement of the tract …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 81

Chapter XIX.--Domitian commands the Descendants of David to be slain.

… It is noticeable that, although Eusebius has the written authority of Hegesippus for this account, he still speaks of it as supported by "ancient tradition." This is different from his ordinary custom, and serves to …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 181

Chapter XVII.--The Translator Symmachus. [1894]

… For a discussion of Ebionism, see the notes on that chapter. [1896] On the attitude of the Ebionites toward the Canonical Gospel of Matthew (to which of course Eusebius here refers), see ibid. note 8 …

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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 253

Introduction to Tomus Ad Antiochenos.

… may learn from our fellow-ministers, the needs of the church detain us, with much regret we begged the same fellow-ministers of ours, Eusebius and Asterius, to go to you in our stead. And …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 192

Chapter IX.

… But there is said to be yet another reason for this work, in that when he had read Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he approved indeed the substance of the history and declared that the things …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 219

Chapter XXXV.

… Vigilantius, [2632] a citizen of Gaul, had the church of Barcelona. He wrote also with some zeal for religion but, overcome by the desire for human praise and presuming above his strength, being a man …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 71

Chapter V.--The Last Siege of the Jews after Christ.

… But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 15

Chapter XII.--Of Spyridon, Bishop of the Cypriots.

… I have heard moreover concerning Eutychian, a devout person who flourished about the same time; who also belonged to the Novatian church, yet was venerated for the performance of similar miracles. I shall unequivocally state …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 125

Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius

… The student will thus have at hand the materials for a covetable survey of the Alexandrian Fathers,--their history, their influence, and their immense authority in early Christendom. In an elucidation [2396] I venture to …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 176

Chapter XIII.--The Writings of Clement. [1840]

… John and the robber, quoted by Eusebius in Bk. III. chap. 23. It is an eloquent and able work; and when compared with the prevailing notions of the Church of his day, its teaching is …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 168

Chapter II.--The Training of Origen from Childhood. [1767]

… This sixth book of Eusebius' History is our chief source for a knowledge of Origen's life. His own writings give us little information of a personal nature; but Eusebius was in a position to …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 94

Chapter XXXII.--Symeon, Bishop of Jerusalem, suffers Martyrdom.

… He writes as follows: "They came, therefore, and took the lead of every church [884] as witnesses [885] and as relatives of the Lord. And profound peace being established in every church, they remained until …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 281

Councils, imperial convocation defended, [3028]208.

Eusebius Pamphilus, the historian, one source of Sozomen's history, [3225]222; story of Constantine's vision of the cross, [3226]241; sides with Arius against Alexander, [3227]252; attends Nicene council and eulogizes Constantine …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 279

GENERAL INDEX TO SOZOMEN'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

… Catholic Church the orthodox church, [2787]205; unity of, [2788]258; unites with Novatians in Constantinople, [2789]316; persecution under Valens, [2790]357. Cecropius, bishop of Nicomedia, killed in earthquake, [2791]310. Celibacy, favored by …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 93

Canon VII.

… Bishop Eusebius of Dorylæum was equally mistaken in maintaining at Chalcedon itself, that the third canon had been sanctioned by the Pope; and we shall have occasion further on, in the history of the Council …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 1

A SELECT LIBRARY

… All; Early Church; Proofed LC Call no: BR60 LC Subjects: Christianity Early Christian Literature. Fathers of the Church, etc. A SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SECOND SERIES …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 359

Chapter LII.--Constantine's Letter to Eusebius concerning Mambre.

… of this history says the letter was addressed to him, while it is really to Macarius. On this ground the Eusebian authorship of the book has been challenged, but of course Eusebius is among "the …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 478

Here endeth the first book.

… de plus, à cause de sa taille." See below the extract from his History of Armenia, book ii. ch. 26. [2907] Eusebius has di' epistolephorou. See note on tachudromou , on next page.--Tr. [2908] Lit …

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