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 7, 2024.
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CHAP. XX. How those [people] termed The Eruli turned Christians in the times of Justinian.
ABout these very times, as the same Procopius relates, Thea 1.1Eruli (who long before had passed the River Danube, at such time as Anastasius Governed the Roman Empire;) ha∣ving been kindly received by Justinian who en∣riched them with great wealth, by a generall consent turned all Christians, and changed their Pristine way of living for a more civilized and quieter course of life.
Notes
a 1.1
Concer∣ning the conversion of these people to the Faith of Christ, Procopius speaks in book 1. of his Go∣thicks, and Theophanes in his Chronicon, pag. 149. These people, in regard they lived near the Lake Maeotis, in Fenny places, were from thence first termed Eluri. For 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greek signifies Fens, or Fennish places. Jordanes in his book de Rebus Ge••icis, writes thus concerning The Heruli: Nam praedicta Gens, Ablabio Historico referente, &c; For the foresaid Nation, as Ablabius the Historian relates, dwelling near the Lakes of Maeotis, in Fennish places, which the Greeks term Ele, were named Eluri. The Authour of the Etymologicon says the same in the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Helmoldus in his Chronicon of the Slavi, chap. 2, affirms that these Heruli were a Slavick Nation, who dwelt between Albia and Odora, and reach't a great way out to the South in a long Bay; who also, as he writes, were by another name termed Heveldi. Vales.