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. XXXVI. What other books were written by Origen.

AT this time therefore, the faith (as it was meet) daily encreasing, and our doctrine being boldly preach'd amongst all men, Origen ('tis said) was now above sixty years old: and because he had now gotten a most excellent habit of speaking through long use and exercise, he permit∣ted the Notaries to * 1.1 write his discourses which he delivered in publick, but never before this time would he suffer that to be done. About this time

he wrote eight books against a book of b 1.2 Celsus the Epicurean, intitled The word of Truth. He also wrote twenty five Volumes upon Matthew's Go∣spel: and those upon the Twelve Prophets, of which books we have found onely twenty five. There is also extant an Epistle of his to Philip the Em∣perour, another to his wife Severa: and several others to divers other persons: which being scat∣tered here and there, in several mens hands, as many of them as we could find preserved, being above an hundred in number, we have collected and digested into proper books by themselves, that they may not hereafter be again dispers'd. He wrote also to c 1.3 Fabian Bishop of Rome, and to several other Prelates of Churches concerning his own Orthodoxie: you have also the declarations of these things in the sixth book of the Apology we wrote in defence of him.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pamphi∣lus the Martyr in his first book of his Apo∣logy attests this of him. Vales.
• b 1.2

  There were two Celsus's, both Epi∣curean Phi∣losophers, one of them lived in the Reign of Nero; the other about the times of Antoni∣nus, as Ori∣gen writes in his first book against Celsus: it was against this latter Celsus that Origen wrote eight most elegant books, which are still extant. This is the same Celsus, to whom Lucian Dedicates his book called, Alexan∣der, or, the false Prophet; being intreated by him to write the Life of that Impostor. In the end of that book, Lucian speaking to him, plainly demonstrates him to be an Epicurean. In the same place also he seems to mention Celsus's book intitled, The True Discourse. Vales.
• c 1.3

  Hieronymus in his 65^th Epistle mentions this Epistle of Origen's to Fabian. Vales.