The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.
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The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.
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Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Persecution -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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"The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38749.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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CHAP. XIX. What a Calamity befell the Jews at Jerusalem on the very day of the Passover.
BUt Claudius yet ruling the Empire, there happened to be so great a tumult and distur∣bance at Jerusalem on the feast of the Passover▪ that there were a 1.1 thirty thousand Jews slain, being those onely who by force were prest together a∣bout the gates of the Temple and troden under foot by one another. So that that Festival was turned into mourning over the whole Nation, and La∣mentation throughout every family. Thus much also Josephus relates almost word for word. But Claudius made Agrippa, the son of Agrippa,b 1.2 King of the Jews; having sent c 1.3Felix Procu∣ratour of the whole country of Samaria and Ga∣lilee, and also of the Region beyond Jordan. And when he had raigned thirteen years and eight months, he dyed, leaving Nero his successour in the Empire.
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a 1.1
The same number he sets down in his Chroni∣con. But Jo∣sephus, in his 2 B. of the Jewish wars says there was some∣what more than ten thousand killed. But in his 20th B. of An∣tiquities, which work he compiled after his History, he accounts the number of the slain to be twenty thousand. Which number I would rather agree too, because these Books, as I said, were written last by him▪ Vales.
This Agrippa the younger, to speak properly, was never King of the Jews. For after the death of Agrippa his father, who dyed the fourth year of Claudius, Claudius took him being very young and kept him with him, neither did he permit him to succeed in his fathers Kingdom. After∣wards, Herod the King of Chalcis being dead, Claudius gave Agrippa his Uncle's Kingdom; which when he had held four years, Claudius in the twelfth year of his Reign gave him Thraconitis, which was the Te∣trarchie of Philip, and also the Kingdom of Lysanias; having first taken Chalcis from him: He transferred to him also the authority over the Temple, and the power of electing the High-priests, which his Uncle Herod had. A little after, Nero added to his Kingdom part of Galilce, as Josephus writes in his twentieth B. of Antiq. Which being thus, its apparent Eusebius was mistaken, who wrote both here and in his Chronicon, that Agrippa the younger succeeded in his fathers Kingdom presently after the death of his father, and was made King of the Jews by Claudius. Although Eusebius says not here expresly that he was by Claudius made King presently after his fathers death. In∣deed, out of Josephus it may be evidently shown that the younger Agrippa was not made King immediately after his fathers death. For in his second Book of the Jewish wars, chap. 13▪ he makes the twelfth year of Nero, wherein the Jewish war began, to be the same with the seventeenth of King Agrippa. Therefore the younger Agrippa began to reign in the eighth year of Claudius. Moreover, I will not deny that he was King of the Jews, seeing he was King of Galilce, and is by Justus reckoned among the Kings of the Jews. But I deny that ever he was King of Judea. For after the death of the Seniour Agrippa, which happened in the fourth year of Claudius, Judea was brought into the form of a Province, and every year the Procuratours of Caesar were sent thither, as Josephus relates. Vales.
In the Chronicon of Eusebius, Felix is said to have been sent Procuratour into Judea by Claudius, in the eleventh year of his Reign. But in Scaligers Edition of that work, it is more rightly placed on the tenth year of Claudius. Yet it seems to be truer, that Felix was sent into Judea in the ninth of Claudius. For Tracitus, in his twelfth Book, says, That Felix was lately set over the Jews, (Sulla and Otho being Consuls, which was the tenth year of Claudius:) and in Acts 24. Paul, pleading his cause before this same Felix, which was done on the thirteenth year of Claudius, speaks thus to him: For as much as I know that thou hast been for many years a judge unto this Nation. Moreover Rufinus is mistaken, in that he thinks these are Josephus's words, when as it appears that they indeed are Eusebius's. Vales.