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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Cambridge :: Printed by John Hayes ... for Han. Sawbridge ...,
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 15, 2024.
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CHAP. XVI. That He issued forth a Law, forbidding his own * 1.1 Statues to be placed in Idol-Temples.
IN this manner therefore he represented him∣self praying, even in his Pictures drawn in Colours. But by a a 1.2 Law he forbad, that his own Statues should be dedicated in Idol-Tem∣ples: least they should be b 1.3 polluted, even as far as the † 1.4 outward Form only, with the errour of prohibited Superstition.
But Socrates (book 1. chap. 18;) relates the contrary, in these words; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; And first, he abolished the Combats of the Gladiatours; then, he placed his own Statues in the Temples. But any one might with good reason conjecture, that this place of Socrates is corrupted. For, So∣crates does there reckon up all things, which were invented by Con∣stantine in order to the abolition of the Superstition of the Heathens. Amongst which he says, that Constantine placed his own Pictures and Statues in the Temples of the Gods. But by doing of that, the supersti∣tion of the Heathens was not extinguished, but rather increased, or chan∣ged. For the Heathens would adore the Emperour in place of a God. Wherefore that passage of Socrates must be mended from Eusebius, in this manner; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. But he forbad, that his own Statues should be dedicated in the Temples. Vales.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. The two last words must in my judgment be expunged; in regard they disturb the sense. For if you blot out them, the sense is plain. Vales.