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. III. Concerning an Image newly made at Antioch.

WHen this [Theotecnus] therefore had several ways made his attacks against us, and had taken all imaginable care to hunt those of our Religion out of their Coverts, (as if they had been Thieves and Malefactours,) and had invented all the ways and methods of calumniating and accusing us, and had been the occasion of put∣ting many men to death: at last he erects an Image of a 1.1 Jupiter Philius, and b 1.2 consecrates it with Magick charmes. And, having invented and instituted, in honour of it, impure ceremo∣nies, execrable initiations, and most detestable expiations; he gave the Emperour himself a de∣monstration of the imposture of his Oracles, by which he effected what he had undertaken. Moreover, this man to please the Emperour by his flattery, stirreth up the Daemon against the Christians; feigning that God commanded, that the Christians (as being his enemies) should be banished the City, and all the Countries adjoyning to the City.

Notes

• a 1.1

  This Temple of Jupiter Philius at Antioch is mentioned by Julia∣nus, in Mi∣sopogone, and by Li∣banius (if I mistake not) in Antiochico. Vales.
• b 1.2

  The Ce∣remonies of the Gentiles, used in the erection and consecration of Images to their Gods, were various. For Jupiter Ctesius was consecrated with one sort of Rites, Herceus with another, and Philius with a third sort. Jupiter Ctesius, whose Image they kept in their store-houses, was con∣secrated with a little tub. Anticlides (in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 that is, in his B. De Ritubus Sacris, apud Athenaeum B. 11. Cap. 6.) relates the Ceremonies of Consecration. Jupiter Herceus was consecrated with Pots: See Aristophanes in Danaidibus. After the same manner were those Images Consecrated, which they erected to Mercury, and other Gods: and this they termed, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to Consecrate with Pots. In these Pots they boyled all sorts of purse, of which they offered sacrifice to those Gods they Consecrated, in memory of the food eaten in Old times, and of the frugality of the Ancients. But when they designed to be at greater cost in treating their God, then they killed a sacrifice at the erection of his Image; which they termed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to Consecrate with a slain sacrifice. See Aristophanes (in Irene) and his Scholiast, pag. 693. See Suidas also, in the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Besides these Ceremonies, they used sometimes Magical Consecrations; So Theotecnus did here, in the Dedication of an Image to Jupiter Philius. Vales.