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 16, 2024.
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CHAP. LXVII. That the Beginnings of Religion were from the East.
FOr, whereas the power of [the true] Light, and the Law of the Sacred Religion, being by the Beneficence of God given forth out of the Bosomes (as I may so say) of the East, hath at the same time illuminated the whole world with its Sacred Light; we upon a very good ac∣count believinga 1.1you would prove the Authours as 'twere and Promoters of the Salvation of [all] Nations, have attempted to find you out, as well by a propensity of our mind, as the* 1.2sight of our eyes.b 1.3Imme∣diately therefore after our great Vi∣ctory and our most certain Triumph over our Ene∣mies,c 1.4we had resolved before all things to en∣quire into that again, which we judged to be the chiefest and most momentous of all.
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a 1.1
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Question∣less the reading must be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉you, as 'tis men∣ded at the margin of Moraeus's Copy. Nor is the reading otherwise in the Fuketian and Savilian Manuscripts. Further, Constantine does expressly reckon the Egyptians amongst the people of the East, which was not perceived by Christophor∣son. Indeed, Egypt was then accounted amongst the Provinces of the East, from the times of Maximine, who having been constituted Caesar in the East, had had Egypt under him. Hence 'tis, that Amm. Mar∣cellinus (in his fourteenth book where he reckons up the Provinces of the East,) attests, that Egypt and Mesopotamia were of their num∣ber. The place occurs at pag. 19 of our Edition. Moreover, the Comes of the East had Egypt and Mesopotamia under his dispose in the times of Constantine and Constantius, as this old Inscription informs us: M. MAECIO MEMMIO FURIO BALBURIO CAECILIANO. PLACIDO. C. V. COMITI ORIENTIS AEGYPTI ET MESOPOTAMIAE. CONSULI ORDINARIO, &c. Further, under the Lat∣ter Emperours, although the Egyptick Diocese was severed from the Oriental, yet 'twas always under the Praefectus Praetorio in the East, as 'tis manifest from The Notitia of the Empire. A little after, I think it should be written, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, have hastned to find you out. Vales.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. 'Tis the same with what he had said in the foregoing chapter, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, after we had destroyed the Common Enemy of the world. Constantine means the Hadrianopolitane Battle, and that at Chalcedon. The For∣mer of which hapned on the fifth of the Nones of July: the Latter on the fourteenth of the Calends of October, in the year of Christ 324. About the end of which year This Letter seems to have been dated. Vales.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. I think the reading should be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 perhaps also 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; that is, we had resolved again to enquire into and determine that dissention of the Donatists. In the excellent Fuke∣tian Copy the reading is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. and so 'tis mended in Turnebus's and Moraeus's Copy at the margin. Some words are doubtless wanting here. But the meaning of the place is wholly the same with what I have said. Further, the reading of all Copies being compared together, the place seems to be restored thus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. we resolved upon enquiring what that first thing was, which, &c. Vales.