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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1683.
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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 16, 2024.
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CHAP. IX. Of Josephus, and the Writings he left.
AFter all this, it is fit that we should not be ignorant of this same Josephus, who has given us so great assistance in the History we now have in hand, from whence, and of what stock he came. And he himself does manifest even this also, saying after this manner:
Josephus the son of a 1.1Mattathias, a Priest of Jerusalem, who my self also at first fought against the Romans, and was by necessity forced to be present at what was done afterwards.
This man was esteemed the most emi∣nent person of all the Jews of those times, not onely by his own country men, but also by the Romans: inso∣much that he was honoured with a Statue dedicated to him in the City of Rome, and the Books compiled by him were accounted worthy to be placed in the publick Li∣brary. He wrote all the Jewish Antiquities in twenty entire Books; and the History of the Jewish war, in his own time, in seven Books; which History he himself testifies, he put forth not onely in Greek, but also in his own Country lan∣guage; and He is worthy to be credited both in this, and in other things. There are also two other Books of his extant very worthy to be read, which are about the Ancientness of the Jews: in which he answers Apion Grammaticus who at that time wrote a b 1.2 Volume against the Jews, and some
others who had attempted to calumniate the c 1.3 Antiquity and Laws of the Jewish Nation. In the former of these he sets forth the number of the Canonical Books of that called the Old Testa∣ment, which of them are among the Hebrews un∣questionable and undoubted, as being received from antient tradition; discoursing of them in these words.
Notes
a 1.1
In the Kings M. S. it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and so also in Josephus, in his Book of his own Life, and in the proeme to his History of the Jewish wars. In Sophronius's Book, De scriptoribus Eccles. it is, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So also So∣zomen calls him in the beginning of his first Book. And Rufinus calls the father of Josephus Mat∣thias; Joseppus, says he, M••thiae fillus, ex Hierosolymis sacerdos. So it is written in the most excel∣lent M. S. of the Parisian Church. Vales. Suetonius, in the life of Vespasian, has this passage of Jo∣sephus; Unus ex nobilibus capti∣vis Josephus, cùm conjiceretur in vincula; constantissime assevera∣vit fore, ut ab eo brevi solveretur, verum jam Imperatore.
The words of Eusebius are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; but Nicephorus writes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which Josephus seems to confirm, who testifies that Apion wrote more Books than one against the Jewish nation. But Jerom, in Catalogo, where he speaks of Josephus's writings, defends the ordinary reading. Vales.
Josephus in his Books against A∣pion, an∣swers not onely those who had calumnia∣ted the Laws and Institutions of the Jews; but also he more especially writes against those who had forged certain falsities concerning the original and antiquity of the Jews, as appears by his first Book. But about the end of his second Book he answers Apollonius, Molon, and Lysimachus, who had written some lies about the Laws and Institutions of the Jews. The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 therefore in this place must mean both these, to wit, the Antiquity, and the Laws of the Jewish Nation. Vales.