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. XXXII. What Expositions Origen wrote at Caesarea in Pa∣lestine.

ABout this time Origen wrote his [Com∣ments] upon Esaias, and those upon Eze∣kiel at the same time, of which books, there came to our hands thirty five Volumes upon the third part of Esaias, unto the Vision of the four footed beasts in the wilderness: And twenty five Volumes upon Ezekiel, which were all he wrote upon the whole Prophet: making his abode at that time at Athens, he finish'd his Commentaries upon Eze∣kiel: He also begun his Comments upon the Canti∣cles, and there proceeded in them to the fifth book:

but he afterwards return'd to Caesarea, and there finish'd them, being ten books in number. But what necessity is there at present to write an exact Catalogue of this mans works, which requires a work it self; which we have also written in our a 1.1 History of Pamphilus's Life, the blessed b 1.2 Mar∣tyr of our times. In which, endeavouring to prove how great Pamphilus's care and love towards sacred Learning was, we have publish'd the Cata∣logues of Origen's works, and of several other Ecclesiastick Writers which he Collected. From whence, he that is desirous, may have a full infor∣mation concerning all the Monuments of Origen's labours which came to our hands. But now we must proceed to the subsequent series of our Hi∣story.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Eusebius wrote three most ele∣gant books concerning Pamphilus the Mar∣tyr's Life, as Hierony∣mus witnes∣seth in his 1. Apology against Ru∣finus; where he also quotes a piece of that work, out of the third book; lie also men∣tions those books in his Epistle to Marcella; 'twas in Eusebius's third book De Vitâ Pamphili, wherein he wrote a Catalogue of Origen's works. Vales.
• b 1.2

  The Med. and Fuk. M SS. read it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, all in one word, not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. The Greeks call those 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 who were both Martyrs, and Priests: therfore Pamphilus being a Presbyter, and a Martyr, may well be stil'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. The Greeks in their Me∣nologie•• have three sorts of Martyrs, some they call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 i. e. great Martyrs: some 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. holy Martyrs, others 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 that is the Bishops, or sometimes Presbyters who suffer'd Martyrdome: all the rest they call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, barely Martyrs: there is also another title yet, namely, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; but this is onely proper to Stephen, and Th••••la he being the first of men, and she the first of women which were crown'd with Martyrdom. Here we may see what decency the Greeks use in comparison of the Latines; they give Epithe••s to their Saints, with which, as with titles they are honour'd, distinguished from other men. Vales.