Ecclesiastical History, Books 6–10 (The Fathers of the Church)

by Eusebius

Publisher:

Catholic University of America

, 1955

Overview

Eusebius was commonly known among the ancients as Eusebius of Caesarea or Eusebius Pamphili. The first designation arose from the fact that he was bishop of Caesarea for many years; the second from the fact that he was a close friend and admirer of Pamphilus, a proselyte of Caesarea and a martyr. At least 40 contemporaries bore the same name, among which the most famous were Eusebius of Samosata—and so arose the necessity of distinguishing him from these others by specific designation.

The year of the Edict of Milan, which divides the first from the second epoch of Church history, does like service for the life and for the literary medium of the Church’s first historian. According to the growing assent of scholars, 313 marks off chronologically the Alexandrian from the Byzantine period of Greek literature, and it is 313 that cleaves into uneven but appropriate parts that career of Eusebius Pamphilil. In training and in literary taste, Eusebius belongs to the earlier time. Officially and in literary productivity, he belongs to the later. It was shortly after 313 that Eusebius became a bishop, as it was, for the most part, after 313 that his works were actually composed. Of events contemporary with these later years, Eusebius recorded much that is valued, but it is for what he tells of the earlier period—of the days before the Peace of the Church—that he looms so large in the history of history and of literature. Through him—through him almost alone—are preserved to us the feeble memories of an age that died with himself.

Contents

Top Highlights

“For as many as he saw were naturally gifted he introduced also to philosophical studies, presenting geometry and arithmetic and other preliminary subjects, and leading them on into the systems of the philosophers, explaining their works, commenting upon and examining into each, so that the man was proclaimed a great philosopher even among the Greeks themselves. And many of the less endowed he urged to take up the ordinary subjects,³ saying that from these no little benefit would be theirs for the examination and study of the divine Scriptures. For this reason especially he considered the training in secular and philosophic learning necessary even for himself.” (Pages 32–33)

“those who held positions of honor be disenfranchized” (Page 167)

“Origen was in his eighteenth year when he took charge of the catechetical school,^{3” (Page 9)}

“all the bishops of the churches in every place be first committed to prison” (Page 168)

“all the Syrias and Arabia which you help on every occasion,^{2” (Page 95)}

Product Details

• Title: Ecclesiastical History, Books 6–10
• Author: Eusebius
• Series: The Fathers of the Church
• Volume: 29
• Publisher: Catholic University of America
• Print Publication Date: 1955
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 337
• Era: era:ante-nicene
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Church history › Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 9780813214467, 0813214467
• Resource ID: LLS:CCLSSTCLHSTBKS6
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:18:31Z

About Eusebius

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 263–339) also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Biblical text.