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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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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Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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1577.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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CAP. IX.
Of Iosephus, and his commentaries, in the ninth and tenth chapiters folowing.
BEsides all this, I thinke it good, not to be ignorant of Iosephus him selfe, that hath stoode vs in so great steade, for the furnishing of this our present historye, whence, and of what kin∣dred he came, which circumstance he him selfe sheweth, saying thus: Iosephus the sonne of* 1.1Mattathias, a priest, of Ierusalem, vvhich him selfe also at the first impugned the Romaynes, and vvas necessarily present, at the finall ende of their vvofull miseryes, because of the Ievves of that tyme. This man was famous, not onely among his owne nation, but also among the Romaynes, so that at Rome, he was thought worthy the honor of a grauen picture, and the bookes which di∣ligently he wrote, were thought worthy of the publike librarye. He wrote tvventy bookes of Iu∣daicall
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Antiquities. he testifieth him selfe, therefore worthy of creditt, that he gathered in seuen bookes the Romayne vvarres of his tyme, and published it both in the Greeke, and Hebrewe ton∣gues. Certayne others worthy the reading, passe vnder his name, for example: Tvvo volumes of the Antiquitie of the Ievvish nation, where he aunswereth Apion Grammaticus, and certayne o∣thers: which at that tyme impugned the Ievves, and endeuored to disgrace the natiue lawe, of the Iewishe nation. In the first he layeth downe the number of the bookes of the olde testament, deli∣uered by tradition, and receaued without gainfaying, of the Ievves, saying as foloweth:
Notes
* 1.1
sephus of •• selfe An ••. lib. 16. cap ••el. lud. lib cap. 25. lib. contra A∣nem.