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 15, 2024.
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CHAP. XXVIII. Concerning the Persecution under Maximinus
MOreover, Maximinus Caesar succeeded A∣lexander the Roman Emperour, after he had Reign'd thirteen years. He, because of his hatred to Alexander's family, which consisted of many believers, rais'd a Persecution, and gave command that onely the Prelates of the Churches should be slain, as the Authours of the Preaching of the Gospel. And at that time Origen com∣pos'd his book concerning Martyrdom, which he Dedicated to Ambrosius, and Protoctetus, a Pres∣byter of the Church of Caesarea. Because no tri∣vial peril and afflictions seized on them both during the times of this Persecution. Fame Records the illustrious eminenty of these men for their confes∣sion [of the Christian faith,] a 1.1 when Maximinus had not Reign'd above three years. Origen re∣markes the time of this Persecution, both in the twenty second book of his Expositions upon John, and in several of his Epistles.
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a 1.1
Christo∣phorson did not at all understand the mean∣ing of this place, for he thinks that Ambrosius, and Protoctetus were afflicted for the Name of Christ about the end of Maximinus's Reign: but Eusebius does not say so; he onely means thus much, that the Persecution continu'd all Maximinus's Reign, but that his days were shortned, as the Scri∣pture says of Antichrist. Moreover, this Persecution begun when Maximin was Emperour, (after a long continu'd Peace in the Church,) because of frequent, and most dreadfull Earthquakes, which the Hea∣thens, as they usually did, imputed to the Christians. Firmilianus in his Epistle to Cyprian attests this: See Baronius at the year of Christ, 237. Vales.