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.

CHAP. XXVII. How many also of [the works of others] who then flourished, [are come to our knowledge.]

INdeed, very many Monuments of the virtuous and laudable diligence of those antient and Ec∣clesiastick men which then [flourisht] are to this day preserved amongst many: But [the works] of those, whom we our selves could a 1.1 discern to be such, are, Heraclitus's [Comments] upon the A∣postle, and the [Book] of b 1.2 Maximus con∣cerning that question so much talk't of amongst Hereticks, whence evill proceeds: and concer∣ning this that matter is made. Also Candi∣dus's piece, on the six days work; and that of Apion upon the same Subject. In like manner, S••xtus's book Concerning the Resurrection; and another piece of Arabianus's; and of very many more; whose times wherein they lived, because we want assistances from the proof thereof, we can neither commit to writing, nor yet c 1.3 declare any memorable passages [of their's, in this our Histo∣ry.] There are also come to our hands the books of many others, whose very names we are unable to recite: all which were indeed Orthodox and Ec∣clesiastick [persons] as the interpretations of the Sacred Scripture [produced] by every one of them doth demonstrate; but yet they are un∣known to us, because what they have written has not their name prefixt to it.

Notes

• a 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. (which is the term here) does properly signifie, in∣ternoscere, ac distin∣guere, i. e. to discern, or distin∣guish. The import of Eusebius's words is, that those Writers which by some certain mark be was able to distinguish from here∣tical au∣thours, were Heraclitus, Maximus, &c. Rufinus and Jerom, instead of Heraclitus, read Heraclius. Our Historian does here relate, first the Ecclesiastick Writers of that time, whose names he knew: afterwards he mentions those, whose books were 〈◊〉〈◊〉 extant; but their names were unknown. Vales.
• b 1.2

  The Title of Maximus's Book was, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, concern••ng matter: it was composed by way of Dialogue. Eusebius quotes a most excellent piece of it in his last chap. of his 7 B. Preparat, Evang. where he gives the Authour this Elogue: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 i. e. Maximus, a person in no wise obscure for his Christian life and conver∣sation, Wrote a seasonable piece entitled, concerning matter. Vales.
• c 1.3

  Eusebius does usually quote some passages out of those Au∣thours works which he mentions: So he did, as we see, out of Irenaeus, Clemens, Hegesippus, Papias, and others; whenever he knew the time of the Authours Writing. But in these Writers, whom he mentions in this chapter, Eusebius says he could not perform this, because he could not certainly know the times they lived in, but was in want of arguments and proofs thereof. Vales.