Ecclesiastical History, Books 1–5 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 19)

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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

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pp. iii-v

Contents

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pp. vii-xiii

INTRODUCTION

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pp. 3-33

Eusebius was commonly known among the ancients as Eusebius of Caesarea or Eusebius Pamphili. The first designation arose from the fact that he was bishop of Caesarea for many years; the second from the fact that he was a close friend ...

Book One

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pp. 35-82

Since it is my purpose to hand down a written account of the successions of the holy Apostles as well as of the times extending from our Saviour to ourselves; the number and nature of the events which are said to have been treated in ecclesiastical history; the number of those who were ...

Book Two

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pp. 83-135

All that the history of the Church needed to have stated by way of an introduction-the proofs of the divinity of the saving Logos, the ancient history of the doctrines which we teach, the antiquity of the evangelical life which Christians ...

Book Three

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pp. 137-206

In such a condition were the affairs of the Jews, but of the holy Apostles and disciples of our Saviour who were scattered over the whole world,¹ Thomas, as tradition holds, received Parthia;² Andrew, Scythia;³ John, ...

Book Four

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pp. 207-270

About the twelfth year of the reign of Trajan¹ the bishop²of the diocese of Alexandria, whom we mentioned a little above, departed this life, and Primus,³ the fourth from the Apostles, received the administration of ...

Book Five

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pp. 271-347

Now, Soter, ¹Bishop of the Church at Rome, died in the eighth year of his rule. Eleutherus,² as twelfth after the Apostles, succeeded him, and it was the seventeenth year³ of the Emperor Antoninus Verus. In this ...