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rapaxt60pe-iwav av'Tro TE Kicl To XptLO.o o;Y- bins. (See the question discussed by Neander
iCpLLv). Hierocles had advised Diocletian to begin Kirckengesch. vol. ii. p. 1073, note.) On another
his persecution, and had written two books, called occasion, he produced in church an act of accusation
AoyoiL qiNaAiOe7s, comparing our Lord's miracles against Nestorius, whom he denounced as reviving
to those of Apollonius of Tyana. (See Lactantius, the heresies of Paul of Samosata. (Leontius, contra
Instit. v. 2, 3, 4.) In answering this work, Eu- Nestorian. et Eutychl. iii.) The interest which he
sebius reviews the life of Apollonius by Philos- took in this controversy probably induced him to
tratus. It was published in Greek and Latin by alter his profession, and to enter into holy orders.
F. Morell (among the works of Philostratus) at He afterwards became bishop of Dorylaeum, a
Paris, 1608, and with a new translation and notes town in Phrygia on the river Thymbrius (a feeder
by Olearius, Leipzig, 1709. of the Sangarius), not far from the Bithynian fron7. Against Marcellus (KaCr&l MapKdAAbv), bishop tier. In this office he was among the first to deof Ancyra, in two books. Marcellus had been fend against Eutyches the doctrine of Christ's twocondemned for Sabellianism at Constantinople, fold nature, as he had already maintained against
A. D. 336, and this work was written by desire Nestorins the unity of His person. He first priof the synod which passed sentence. The most vately admonished Eutyches of his error; but, as
important edition is by Rettberg, Gutting. 1794-8. he failed in convincing him, he first denounced him
8. De Ecclesiastica Tlieologia (7repe l rs eIwcAX7LC- at a synod summoned by Flavius, bishop of ConaoTcrt'is reoAhoyfas, zv 7rpois MadpcehAov eA6yXwv stantinople, and then proceeded to the council,BfLAia y'). This is a continuation of the former which Theodosius had summoned to meet at Ephework, and both were edited with a Latin version sus, to declare the Catholic belief on the point
and notes by Montagu, bishop of Chichester, and mooted by Eutyches. The assembly met A. D. 449
appended to the Demonstratio Evangelica, Paris, under the presidency of Dioscurus, bishop of Alex1628. andria, a partizan of Eutyches. It was disgraced
9. De Vita Constanstini, four books (eIS Tijy 8tLdy by scenes of the greatest violence, which gained
rov IuaKaplov Kwvo-ravT'ivov Baolhcwos Ao'yot r'T- for it the title of av'volos A?1o'rTpl~, and besides
napes), a panegyric rather than a biography. They sanctioning the monophysite doctrine, it decreed the
have generally been published with the Ecclesias- deposition of Eusebius. But Leo the Great, bishop
tical History, but were edited separately by Hei- of Rome, interfered and prevailed upon Marcian,
nichen, 1830. the successor of Theodosius, to convene another
10. Onomasticon de Locis Hebraicis (repl rcv general council to revise the decrees of this disor-'TO7trKCcsY O&Tocadw e,'d- eras paypp,) a description derly assembly. It met at Chalcedon, A. D. 451,
of the towns and places mentioned in Holy Scrip- and Eusebius presented a petition at it addressed
ture, arranged in alphabetical order. This is in- to Marcian and his colleague Valentinian. He
scribed to Paulinus, bishop of Tyre, as is also the was restored to his see, and the doctrine of Eutytenth book of the Ecclesiastical History. It was ches finally condemned. A Contestatio adversus
translated into Latin by Jerome, and published at IVestoriun by Eusebius is extant in a Latin transParis with a commentary, by Jacques Bonpere, lation amongst the works of Maiius Mercator,
1659, and again at Amsterdam; by J. Cleves, 1707. part ii. p. 18. There are also a Libellus adver-sus
Besides these, several epistles of Eusebius are Eutycheten Synodo C(onstantizopolitano oblatuts (Conpreserved by different writers, e.g. by Socrates cil. vol. iv. p. 151), Libellus. adversus Dioscurum
(i. 8) and Theodoret (i. 12); and he wrote com- Synodo CGalcedoneasi oblates (ib. p. 380), and
mentaries on various parts of Scripture, many of Epistola ad Marciezaum 1inperatorem (ib. p. 95).
which are not extant. (Evagrius, Hist. ]Eccl. ii. 4; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol.
The first edition of all the works of Eusebius i.; Neander, 1. c. and vol. ii, p. 959.) [G. E.L. C.]
was published in Latin at Basle, in four volumes, EUSE'BIIJS of EM1SA, born of a noble family
ex variorumn interpretatione, 1542, which reappear- at Edessa in Mesopotamia at the end of the third
ed at Paris in a more correct form, 1580. Since century. He was a man of considerable learning,
that time it has been usual to edit his works sepa- having received instructions from Eusebius of Caerately, and the chief of these editions have been sareia and other teachers of high repute. He went
given with the'account of each work. to Alexandria, that he might avoid ordination, and
(See Cave, Script. Eccl. Hist. Lit. vol. i.; Fabric. devote himself to philosophy, but afterwards reBibl. Grae. vol. vii. c. 4; Neander, Kirchengeschz- moved to Antioch, became intimate with Flaccillus,
ic/ite, vol. ii. p. 787, &c.; Waddington,:History of its bishop, and was ordained. At this time Athal]e Clzlurch, ch. vi.; Jortin, Eccl. Hist. iii. The nasius was deposed from the see of Alexandria,
last two contain interesting discussions on the re- and Eusebius of Nicomedeia, then bishop of Canligious opinions of Eusebius. [G. E. L. C.] stantinople, wished to instal his namesake into the
EUSE'BIUS, of DOILRYLAEUM, born at the end vacant office. He wisely declined the questionable
of the fifth century, began his public life as a lay- honour, knowing that the Alexandrians were too
man, and held an office about the imperial court of warmly attached to Athanasius to tolerate any
Constantinople, which gave him the title of Agens other patriarch. He accepted, however, the see of
in Rebus. One day, as Nestorius, then bishop of Emisa in Syria (the city from which Elagabalus
Constantinople, was preaching against the propriety had been chosen emperor by the soldiers); but on
of applying the term ~eOTi-dOS to the Virgin Mary, proceeding there to take possession, he was driven
and was maintaining at once the eternal genera- away by a tumultuous mob, who had heard a retion of the divine Logos, and the human birth of port of his being a sorcerer, based upon the fact
the Man Jesus, a voice cried out, "' No, the Eternal that he was fond of astronomical studies. He fled
~Word Himself submitted to the second birth." A to Laodiceia, and lived with George, bishop of that
scene of great confusion followed, and an active place, by whose exertions he was afterwards reopposition to the Nestorian doctrine began. There stored to Emisa. *He was a great favourite with
is little doubt that the voice proceeded from Euse- the emperor Constantius, whom he accompanied