A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

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Title: A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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Subject terms: Church history.; Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.; Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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EVAGRIUS.

EVagrius was born at Epiphania, a City of the second Province of Syria, under the Empire of Justinian, about the Year 536: After he had studied, he follow'd the Bar, and was a profess'd Advocate at Antioch. This was the occasion of giving him the Name of Scholasticus, for then they were call'd so who pleaded at the Bar. He was made Treasurer and Secretary for the Province by the Emperor Tiberius. He compos'd six Books of Ecclesiastical History, which begin where Theodo∣ret, Socrates and Sozomen end, i. e. at the Year 439, and end at the twelfth Year of Mauritius, which is 594, according to the Vulgar Aera.

This History is very large and exact enough. He relates Matter of Fact from the Authority of the Acts and Historians of the time. The style is not unpleasant: It has an elegance and politeness in the Judgment of Photius, altho there be some times superfluous words in his Discourse. He does often also make Digressions and Relations which are not agreeable to his Design; and he seems to be more vers'd in Profane then Ecclesiastical History: But he has one Advantage above the Ecclesiasti∣cal Historians that went before him, that there is no occasion to upbraid him with being engag'd in some Sect, or with falling into some Error about the Faith or Discipline of the Church.

Robert Stephens publish'd the Original Greek of this Historian from one Manuscript only of the King's Library. Valesius revis'd it since by two Manuscripts, and has made a new Version of it, after those of Musculus and Christopherson. [Besides this History, he wrote two other Pieces which are lost, viz. two Books of Epistles, Orations, &c. and a Panegyrical Oration to Mauricius the Emperor up∣on the Birth of Theodosius; both which are mention'd by himself towards the latter end of his Histo∣ry, Cave p. 433, 434.]