The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius: The First Book and Selections

Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea)

Harper, 1874 - Church history - 279 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 4
• BOOK II: 7
• Chap Page 23 The Martyrdom of James called the Lords Brother: 50
• Annianus Bishop of Alexandria after Mark: 55
• The Jews were involved in numberless calamities and en tered on their final war with Rome: 57
• The last Siege of the Jews after the time of Christ: 58
• On the Famine that afflicted them: 60
• On Christs Predictions: 66
• On the Signs that preceded the War: 68
• On Josephus and the Writings which he has left: 70
• How Josephus mentions the Divine Books: 71
• How Symeon after James ruled the Church in Jerusalem: 73
• How Vespasian ordered search to be made for the de scendants of David: 74
• On the Persecution under Domitian: 75
• How Domitian ordered the descendants of David to be put to death: 76
• Cerdon the third who ruled the Church of Alexandria: 78
• On the Order of the Gospels: 82
• On the acknowledged Divine Scriptures and on those which are not such: 85
• On Menander the Impostor: 87
• On the Heresy of the Ebionites: 88
• On Cerinthus the Heresiarch: 89
• On Nicolas and those who were called after him: 90
• Chap Page 30 On those of the Apostles who were married: 91
• On the Death of John and Philip: 92
• How Symeon Bishop of Jerusalem was martyred: 93
• How Trajan forbade search to be made for Christians: 95
• Evarestus the fourth who ruled the Church of Rome: 96
• On Ignatius and his Epistles: 97
• On those who were conspicuous as Evangelists: 100
• On the Epistle of Clement and the Writings falsely as cribed to him: 101
• On the Writings of Papias: 102
• Letter of Antoninus to the Community of Asia: 106
• Polycarp who was acquainted with the Apostles: 107
• The Martyrdom of Polycarp with others at Smyrna: 109
• How Justin the Philosopher was martyred at Rome: 118
• On the Martyrs mentioned by Justin in a work of his own: 120
• What Writings of Justin have come down to us: 123
• Preface: 126
• The Number of those who under Verus in Gaul suffered for Religion and the manner of their suffering: 127
• those who had lapsed in the persecution: 142
• How the Martyrs beloved of God tended with kindness 3 The Vision that appeared to the martyr Attalus: 144
• How the Martyrs by a letter recommended Irenaeus: 145
• Catalogue of those who had been bishops at Rome: 147
• How even to those times wonderful Miracles were wrought by the believers: 148
• THE LIFE OF EUSEBIUS: 151
• NOTES: 167
• That both the Name of Jesus and also that of Christ itself: 169
• On the supposed Discrepancy between the Gospels as: 182
• On the Times of Pilate 39: 192
• INDEX: 251

Popular passages

Page 4 - AS it is my purpose to record the successions of the holy apostles, together with the times since our Saviour, down to the present, to recount how many and important transactions are said to have occurred in ecclesiastical history, what individuals in the most noted places eminently governed and presided over the church...

Page 201 - ... detulit ad senatum cum praerogativa suffragii sui. Senatus, quia non ipse probaverat, respuit ; Caesar in sententia mansit, comminatus periculum accusatoribus Christianorum.

Page 203 - AFTER the martyrdom of Paul and Peter, Linus was the first that received the episcopate at Rome.

Page 154 - But about the end of AD 307, all other thoughts and interests were absorbed in solicitude for Pamphilus, who, after cruel tortures, was cast into prison, where Eusebius, regardless of danger, ' became his constant companion ; and during the two years that this imprisonment lasted, the two friends composed together a "Defence of Origen...

Page 157 - Christianity to thoughtful and candid enquirers ', which led Eusebius to plan and execute an elaborate work consisting of two long treatises, the ' Preparation for the Gospel ' in fifteen books, and the 'Demonstration of the Gospel

Page 203 - Peter appears to have preached through Pontus, Galatia, Bithynia, Cappadocia and Asia, to the Jews that were scattered abroad ; who also, finally coming to Rome, was crucified with his head downward, having requested of himself to suffer in this way. Why should we speak of Paul, spreading the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem to Illyricum, and finally suffering martyrdom at Rome, under Nero?

Page 199 - Israč'litarum consuetudinem, *quam a sacerdote reductam didicerunt', tenent, ex parte gentilem, quam in nativitatis suae 'terra habuerunt. Nam in observationibus suis a ludaeis omnino separantur; quorum superstitio procul dubio omnibus nota est. c»p. ix. 4Ierodiani. Temporibus salvatoris haec haeresis exsurrexit. Hi Herodem magnificant, dicentes ipsum esse Christum, cpx ^lemerobaptistae, qui quotidie et corpora sua et domum et supellectilem lavant".

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius: The First Book and Selections; Volume 2 of Douglass series of Christian Greek and Latin writers for use in schools and colleges; Volume 2 of Douglass series of Christian Greek and Latin writers
• Author: Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea)
• Publisher: Harper, 1874
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Dec 11, 2006
• Length: 279 pages