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Eusebius said, “ The Creator of all things has impressed a natural law upon the soul of every man, as an assistant and ally in his conduct, pointing out to him the right way by this law ; but, by the free liberty with which he is endowed, making the choice of what is best worthy of praise and acceptance, because he has acted rightly, not by force, but from his own free-will, when he had it in his power to act otherwise, As, again, making him who chooses what is worst, deserving of blame and punishment, as having by his own motion neglected the natural law, and becoming the origin and fountain of wickedness, and misusing himself, not from any extraneous necessity, but from free will and judgment.
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As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.
Eusebius is also said to have referred to Hefa as Caiaphas civitas, and Benjamin of Tudela, the 12th century Jewish traveller and chronicler, is said to have attributed the city's founding to Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest at the time of Jesus.
Eusebius said that the sect was short-lived.
This man, said in one document to be the author of two of the Epistles of John, was supposed to have been the teacher of the martyr bishop Papias, who had in turn taught Eusebius ' own teacher Irenaeus.
In the hillside Sanctuary at Crea ( Santuario di Crea ), a cedar-wood figure, said to be one of three Black Virgins brought to Italy from the Holy Land c345 by St. Eusebius.
According to Eusebius Hegesippus said Matthew's Gospel was written in Syriac ( Ecclesiastical History 3: 22-24 ) a view Eusebius shared ( Theophania 4: 12 ).
According to Eusebius, he not only refused the offer, but he is said to have cheerfully rushed headlong into the bear.
This legend was first recorded in the early 4th century by Eusebius of Caesarea, who said that he had transcribed and translated the actual letter in the Syriac chancery documents of the king of Edessa, but who makes no mention of an image.
Eusebius also records Origen's statement that he obtained these and others of Symmachus ' commentaries on the scriptures from a certain Juliana, who, he says, inherited them from Symmachus himself ( Historia Ecclesiae, VI: xvii ) Palladius of Galatia ( Historia Lausiaca, lxiv ) records that he found in a manuscript that was " very ancient " the following entry made by Origen: " This book I found in the house of Juliana, the virgin in Caesarea, when I was hiding there ; who said she had received it from Symmachus himself, the interpreter of the Jews ".
He is said by Eusebius of Caesarea to have been a disciple of the Apostles ( auditor apostolorum ).
According to a universal tradition the first bishop of Jerusalem was Saint James the Just, the " brother of the Lord ," who according to Eusebius said that he was appointed bishop by the Apostles Peter, St. James ( whom Eusebius identifies with James, son of Zebedee ), and John.
* ( GN 23 ) On Matthew 10: 34-36, the Syriac translation of Eusebius ' Theophania contains: ' He ( Christ ) himself taught the reason for the separations of souls that take place in houses, as we have found somewhere in the Gospel that is spread abroad among the Jews in the Hebrew tongue, in which it is said, " I choose for myself the most worthy ; the most worthy are those whom my Father in heaven has given me.
Similarly in The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus ( 1912 ) Arthur Drews stated: "( i ) n the edition of Origen published by the Benedictines it is said that there was no mention of Jesus at all in Josephus before the time of Eusebius ( about 300 A. D., Ecclesiast.
He is quoted by his opponent Eusebius as having said " For what else do the words mean, ' until the times of the restitution ' ( Acts 3: 21 ), but that the apostle designed to point out that time in which all things partake of that perfect restoration.
Eusebius said that he was an Athenian philosopher and that Aristides and another apologist, Quadratus, delivered their Apologies directly to the Emperor Hadrian.
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* Arius, “ Arius ’ letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia ”, Ecclesiastical History, ed.
In fact, Origen would have possibly included in his list of “ inspired writings ” other texts which were kept out by the likes of Eusebius, including the Epistle of Barnabas, Shepherd of Hermas, and 1 Clement.
In the 5th century, the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus described Eusebius as writing for “ rhetorical finish ” and for the “ praises of the Emperor ” rather than the “ accurate statement of facts .” The methods of Eusebius were criticised by Edward Gibbon in the 18th century.
In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.
The fragments given as the Commentary on Luke in the PG have been claimed to derive from the missing tenth book of the General Elementary Introduction ( see D. S. Wallace-Hadrill ); however, Aaron Johnson has argued that they cannot be associated with this work ( see “ The Tenth Book of Eusebius ’ General Elementary Introduction: A Critique of the Wallace-Hadrill Thesis ,” Journal of Theological Studies, 62. 1 ( 2011 ): 144-160 ).
In this reference Eusebius writes: “ These things happened to the Jews to avenge James the Just, who was a brother of Jesus, that is called the Christ.
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.
Eusebius, in his catalog of ancient church writings, puts the Gospel of Mark in his Homologoumena or “ accepted ” category.
The name Eusebius may also be found as Eusebios which means “ pious ” in Greek.
During one sermon by Nestorius on this topic in AD 428 or 429, Eusebius publicly proclaimed that “ the eternal Word had submitted to be born a second time ,” getting his fellow listeners at the sermon to drown out Nestorius with sympathetic applause.
Flavian urged that Eutyches should be called to the synod to defend himself, but Eutyches refused to come as he had vowed to remain in his monastery “ as though it were a tomb .” Eusebius pressed his accusation, saying that there were enough witnesses at the synod to confirm his accusations and condemn Eutyches, but Flavian repeatedly sent for Eutyches to come and ask forgiveness.
“ Eusebius of Dorylaeum .” The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed., vol.
“ Eusebius of Dorylaeum .”
Saint Jerome, apparently relying entirely on Eusebius ' evidence from Historia Ecclesiastica, wrote that Pantaenus visited India, “ to preach Christ to the Brahmans and philosophers there.
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According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.
Eusebius ' Preparation for the Gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of Origen: Eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of Plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from Middle Platonists from Philo to the late 2nd century.
Eusebius was intent upon emphasizing the difference of the persons of the Trinity and maintaining the subordination of the Son ( Logos, or Word ) to God ( Eusebius never calls Jesus o theós, but theós ) because in all contrary attempts he suspected either polytheism ( three distinct gods ) or Sabellianism ( three modes of one divine person ).
No point of this doctrine is original with Eusebius, all is traceable to his teacher Origen.
" In the longer text of the Martyrs of Palestine, chapter 12, Eusebius states: " I think it best to pass by all the other events which occurred in the meantime: such as [...] the lust of power on the part of many, the disorderly and unlawful ordinations, and the schisms among the confessors themselves ; also the novelties which were zealously devised against the remnants of the Church by the new and factious members, who added innovation after innovation and forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon misfortune.
* However, Gibbon also calls Eusebius the ' gravest ' of the ecclesiastical historians: " The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
It has therefore been suggested that part or all of the passage may have been Eusebius ' own invention, in order to provide an outside Jewish authority for the life of Christ.
In the same Book I chapter, in items 7 and 8 Eusebius also discusses the Josephus reference to the crucifixion of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a reference that is present in all surviving Eusebius manuscripts.
Eusebius implies that other works were in circulation ; from St Irenaeus he knows of the apology " Against Marcion ," and from Justin's " Apology " of a " Refutation of all Heresies ".
He is important chiefly because of his influence on Eusebius, on all the later writers of Church history among the Fathers, and on the whole Greek school of chroniclers.
The first reference to 3 John is in the middle of the third century ; Eusebius says that Origen knew of both 2 and 3 John, however Origen is reported as saying " all do not consider them genuine.
According to Valesius these were mainly Socrates and Sozomen ; Albert Guldenpenning's thorough research placed Rufinus first, and next to him, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, Sozomen, Sabinus, Philostorgius, Gregory Nazianzen, and, least of all, Socrates.
Eusebius, Saint Irenaeus, Saint Augustine and Optatus all suggest that both names refer to the same individual.
22-" Hegesippus-see above under Eusebius who lived at a period not far from the Apostolic age, writing a History of all ecclesiastical events, from the passion of our Lord down to his own period.
Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.
Had the native history of Berossus survived, this may not have been the case ; all that is known of the Chaldaean historian's work, however, is derived from quotations in Josephus, Ptolemy, Eusebius, Jerome and George Syncellus.
This catacomb's most ancient parts are the crypt of Lucina, the region of the Popes and the region of Saint Cecilia, where some of the most sacred memories of the place are preserved ( including the crypt of the Popes, the crypt of Saint Cecilia, and the crypt of the Sacraments ); the other regions are named the region of Saint Gaius and the region of Saint Eusebius ( end of the 3rd century ), West region ( built in the first half of the 4th century ) and the Liberian region ( second half of the 4th century ), all showing grandiose underground architecture.
Eusebius of Caesaria wrote for Crispus that he is " an Imperator most dear to God and in all regards comparable to his father.
Eusebius ' text reads: " go and make disciples of all nations in my name, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you.
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