The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories

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Title: The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories
Author: Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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Subject terms: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800.
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CAP. VI.

Of such as were the captaines and ringleaders of the Arian opinion.

DOrotheus an Arian Bishop whome we haue remembred before to haue bene translated by the Arians from Antioch to Constantinople, departed this life when he had liued a hun∣dreth and nynteene yeares, the sixt of Nouember in the seauenth Consulship of Honorius and the seconde of Theodosius Augustus. After his desease the Arian sect chose Barbas to theyr bi∣shop* 1.1 in whose time the Arians had amongest them two notable men by whose meanes theyr here∣sie beganne to reuiue againe: the ones name was Timotheus, the other was called Georgius, but priests both: Georgius excelled in prophane literature, Timothee of the cōtrary gaue himselfe whol¦ly* 1.2 to the reading of the worde of God. Georgius was neuer seene without Aristotle or Plato in his hand, Timothee againe was a great mā in Origen and as he expounded holy Scripture he shewed him selfe to be well seene in the Hebrew tōgue. Timothee was aforetime of the Psathyrian sect and Georgius was made priest of Barbas. I my selfe by conferring with Timotheus perceaued howe re∣dy he was to satisfie and resolue euery doubt that was demaunded of him and plainely to set wide open the obscure places of holy Scriptures: he was euer wont to cite Origen for a witnesse to te∣stifie that his sayings were no other then true. Wherefore I can not verily but maruell why these two men continewed Arians seing that the one was a great reader of Plato, the other euer a per∣using of Origen. For Plato affirmed that the seconde and thirde cause (so he was wonte to tearme them) had no begininge of essence: Origen likewise confesseth euerye where the sonne to be coe∣ternall with the father. And althoughe they perseuered in theyre Churche yet priuelye, and by a litle and a litle they reformed the Arian opinion and purged theyr doctrine of many pernicious & pestilent blasphemies of Arius. Of these men so farre. Shortly after when Sisinius the Nouatian bishop had departed this life in the aforesayd Consulship Chrysanthus (of whome I mind to speake more hereafter) was chosen to be theyr Bishop.

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* 1.1

Barbas.

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* 1.2

Georgius. Timotheus.

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