According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Praeparatio Evangelica, Eratosthenes found the distance to the sun to be " σταδιων μυριαδας τετρακοσιας και οκτωκισμυριας " ( literally " of stadia myriads 400 and 80000 ").

Support for Arius from powerful bishops like Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius of Nicomedia, further illustrate how Arius ' subordinationist Christology was shared by other Christians in the Empire.

Domitian, according to Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – 339 ), started the persecution referred to in the book.

* Eusebius of Caesarea.

* Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica ( Church History ) first seven books ca.

4th century writings by Eusebius of Caesarea maintains that Jews and Christians were heavily persecuted toward the end of Domitian's reign.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete.

* Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – c. 339 ), early Christian bishop and historian.

Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius ( c. AD 263 – 339 ) ( also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili ) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist.

His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost.

Eusebius was made presbyter by Agapius of Caesarea.

The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

Eusebius succeeded Agapius, as Bishop of Caesarea soon after 313 and played a prominent role at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

In the following year, he was again summoned before a synod in Tyre at which Eusebius of Caesarea presided.

This work was recently ( 2011 ) translated into the English language by David J. Miller and Adam C McCollum ( edited by Roger Pearse ) and was published under the name " Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions.

* Eusebius of Caesarea.

History of the Martyrs in Palestine by Eusebius of Caesarea, Discovered in a Very Antient Syriac Manuscript.

* Eusebius of Caesarea at the Tertullian Project

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Eusebius references to the encampment of the Legio X Fretensis at Aila ( in southern Israel, near modern Aqaba and Eilat ); the X Fretensis was probably transferred from Jerusalem to Aila under Diocletian.

However, the earlier references by Eusebius and Irenaeus indicate veneration of images and reported miracles associated with them as early as the 2nd century.

Regarding the arguments from silence about the scarcity of references to Josephus prior to Origen and Eusebius, Louis Feldman states that Josephus was ignored by early Christian writers before Origen because they were not sufficiently learned, and not sophisticated enough in historical matters.

Although mentioned in the New Testament gospels, there are no extant non-biblical references to Nazareth until around 200 AD, when Sextus Julius Africanus, cited by Eusebius ( Church History 1. 7. 14 ), speaks of “ Nazara ” as a village in " Judea " and locates it near an as-yet unidentified “ Cochaba .” In the same passage Africanus writes of desposunoi-relatives of Jesus-who he claims kept the records of their descent with great care.

One of the earliest references to preterism comes from Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. AD 263 – 339 ).

Later Western references, which condemn the work, such as Jerome and Decretum Gelasianum, traditionally connected to Pope Gelasius I, are apparently based upon the judgment of Eusebius, not upon a direct knowledge of the text.

Two possible patristic sources that may refer to eye witness encounters with Jesus are the early references of Papias and Quadratus, reported by Eusebius of Caesarea in the 4th century.

The later references to Quadratus in Jerome and the martyrologies are all based on Eusebius, or are arbitrary enlargements of his account.

Until 1878, our knowledge of Aristides was confined to some references in works by Eusebius of Caesarea and Saint Jerome.

The earliest surviving references to the gospel tradition are quoted by Eusebius ( lived c. 263 – 339 CE ), and different but related traditions appear in the works of Papias ( wrote during the first half of 2nd century CE ) and the works of Clement.

* There is conflicting information on the same regnal period from different versions of the same text ; the Egyptian historian Manetho's history of Egypt is only known by extensive references to it made by subsequent writers, such as Eusebius and Sextus Julius Africanus.

* Arius, “ Arius ’ letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia ”, Ecclesiastical History, ed.

We know the titles of several lost works because of a list in Eusebius ' Ecclesiastical History.

2: 2 ; 3: 17 ; also Muratorian Canon 64 – 67 ; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6. 12. 3 ).

In his Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius writes of Dionysius of Alexandria as his contemporary.

In the 290s, Eusebius began work on his magnum opus, the Ecclesiastical History, a narrative history of the Church and Christian community from the Apostolic Age to Eusebius ' own time.

Eusebius completed the first editions of the Ecclesiastical History and Chronicle before 300.

In his Church History or Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius wrote the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources complete from the period of the Apostles to his own epoch.

* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.

Eusebius, circa 300, gave a detailed list of New Testament writings in his Ecclesiastical History Book 3, Chapter XXV:

The information used to create the late-4th-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

Eusebius, in his Ecclesiastical History IV, I, stated that Evaristus died in the 12th year of the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan, after holding the office of bishop of the Romans for eight years.

The most important ancient sources for the battle are Lactantius, De mortibus persecutorum 44 ; Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History ix, 9 and Life of Constantine i, 28-31 ( the vision ) and i, 38 ( the actual battle ); Zosimus ii, 15-16 ; and the Panegyrici Latini of 313 ( anonymous ) and 321 ( by Nazarius ).

* Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History

The Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord ( his word for " sayings " is logia ) in five books, would have been a prime early authority in the exegesis of the sayings of Jesus, some of which are recorded in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, however the book has not survived and is known only through fragments quoted in later writers, with approval in Irenaeus's Against Heresies and later by Eusebius in Ecclesiastical History, the earliest surviving history of the early Church.

Some later traditions, first mentioned in the historian Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History, held that Philip was the first Christian Roman Emperor.

This letter is the only indisputably contemporary document concerning him and was preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History.

Versions of the edict's text were preserved in Eusebius ' Ecclesiastical History and, more completely and accurately, in Lactantius ' On the Deaths of the Persecutors, written before 315.

The church historian, Eusebius, reports this in his Ecclesiastical History.

The letter of Quadratus ( possibly the first Christian apologist ) to emperor Hadrian ( who reigned 117 – 138 ) is likely to have an early date and is reported by Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History 4. 3. 2 to have stated:

* Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History 4. 22

Sextus Julius Africanus's reference to the Desposyni is preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History: