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Eusebius of Caesarea
He watched his own teacher beheaded, then wrote the first history of the church and preserved documents no one else thought to keep.
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This site quotes Eusebius of Caesarea 86 times across 14 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived died 339.
- Quoted here most in Psalms: 39 of 86.
Eusebius of Caesarea
- Lived
- died 339
- Tradition
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Now, since the genealogy of Joseph is so traced, Mary also appears virtually to have been of the same tribe as he, since, according to the law of Moses, intermarriages between different tribes were not permitted.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 1.7, 339
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For it was commanded to join in marriage with one of the same family and of the same people, so that the inheritance of the race might not be changed from tribe to tribe.
Numbers 36:6 This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father. BSB
There is no doubt that Solomon was the son of David and his successor in the kingdom. And he first built the temple of God at Jerusalem, and perhaps the Jews understand him to be the subject of the prophecy.
PROOF OF THE GOSPEL 7.3, 339
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But we may fairly ask them whether the oracle applies to Solomon, which says, "And I will set up his throne for ever," and also where God swore with the affirmation of an oath by his holy one, "The throne of him that is foretold shall be as the sun and the days of heaven."
1 Chronicles 17:11–13 And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor. BSB
Every fault arises from weakness because the spirit is always inclined to a wicked disposition, on account of which it flees to the Savior and Healer, namely, the Son of God.
COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 6:2-4, 339
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For when one comes to the word and reason of God, he gives up his unreasonable actions; as wisdom frees the spirit from foolishness, justice from injustice, truth from lying.
Psalms 6:2 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. BSB
That sword will be the "word of God living and more active than any double edged sword," here in the place of a straight sword, which is entrusted to my spirit for driving out the enemies.
COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 17:13, 14, 339
Psalms 17:13 Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword, BSB
Secretly and with mysterious reckoning he represents his incarnation through [images of] darkness and thick clouds.
COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 18:11-13, 339
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At last he returns to the same place from whence he had set forth: and he ascends into the heavens with the cherubim and flies, although he had not descended with those cherubim, without the cherubim he himself bowed the heavens and descended. On his return it is said, "And he mounted on cherubs, and he flew," with the body he had assumed.
Psalms 18:10 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Eusebius of Caesarea 86 times across 14 books.
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Eusebius was born about 260, probably in Palestine, and attached himself as a young man to Pamphilus, the priest and scholar who ran the library at Caesarea. That library — built on the collection Origen had left there — was the best in the Christian world, and Eusebius spent his life inside it. He loved Pamphilus so much that he called himself Eusebius of Pamphilus for the rest of his days. The Great Persecution under Diocletian caught them. Pamphilus was imprisoned for two years and beheaded in 310. Eusebius saw executions in Palestine, Tyre and Egypt, and wrote them down in The Martyrs of Palestine. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt and survived, and years later a confessor named Potamon publicly asked him how he had managed that. He never answered. About 314 he became bishop of Caesarea. But his work is the books. The Ecclesiastical History, in ten volumes, is the first history of the Christian church, and there is nothing else like it. Eusebius set out to trace the succession of bishops, the writers, the heretics, the sufferings of the Jews, and the martyrs — and he did it by quoting his sources at length. Whole passages of Papias, Hegesippus, Dionysius of Corinth, Clement, Irenaeus and dozens of others survive only because Eusebius copied them into his book before the originals were lost. Every history of early Christianity ever written depends on it. He wrote much more: the Chronicle, a synchronized timeline of world history; the Preparation and the Demonstration of the Gospel, a two-part apologetic; the Onomasticon, a gazetteer of biblical place-names; a commentary on the Psalms and on Isaiah; and the Life of Constantine. He devised the Eusebian Canons, the marginal tables that let a reader find the parallel passages across the four gospels, and they are still printed in critical editions of the Greek New Testament. When Constantine ordered fifty Bibles for the churches of his new capital, Eusebius produced them. His theology is the hard part of his record. At Nicaea in 325 he offered his own baptismal creed as a starting point and signed the final creed with visible reluctance about the word homoousios. Afterward he sided repeatedly with the anti-Nicene party, and he took part in the councils that deposed Eustathius of Antioch and Athanasius. He was a courtier to Constantine and wrote about him in terms that later readers have found excessive. He died about 339. Sources: Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History and Life of Constantine (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 1); Eusebius, The Martyrs of Palestine; Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. III.
86 quotations across 14 books
Where this voice is quoted
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
“Obviously the only way to preserve the understanding of this passage is to explain its spiritual meaning. By the softly proceeding water of Siloam it means the gospel teaching of the word of salvation, because Siloam means "sent with a message."”
Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.
“For all these things will work for your destruction [i.e., Shebna's], since you have been deposed and rejected from the high priesthood, of which you showed yourself unworthy, God being a just judge who gives to each according to his worth.”
Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
“He reports how they became the blind and dull by saying, "They see many things but do not observe." These things were previously communicated [in Isaiah]: "Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking, but do not understand. Make the mind of this people dull."”
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
“If it is necessary for some to be marked by name, then I will make it clear to them all that they are now "those who have been called by my name."”
This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be…
“[The Septuagint reads], "You are God, and we knew it not." The words "we knew it not," spoken in the person of those of old who did not know him, occur only in the Septuagint.”
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
“And despite my exhortation you delayed in expelling such blasphemy and ungodliness, daring to compare me with those who lack being and in no way have my divinity. You esteemed me as equal to soulless wood that you shaped.”
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass.
“Who other can this be than his Christ, who, it says, has been called from a distant land, that is, from the innermost part of Hades? All the things I have announced before him, I will bring into action through him.”
“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
“These words are spoken by the Lord, our redeemer and the one who has freed us from a life of hard labor.… Or as Symmachus puts it, "You will no longer be called queenly. For I was angry with my people and harmed my inheritance."”
These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood.
“And what follows describes very clearly the arrogance of the kingdom of the Chaldeans and the foolishness of their royal people, in such a way that they ascribed to themselves immortal power and an indestructible rule.”
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
“And since Isaiah could not find one man to address, he spoke to the daughter of the Chaldeans, promising these things especially: The astrologers of heaven maintained and supported you, announcing to you what was coming to you from heaven.”
You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open.
“In Symmachus's translation: "And you, though faithless to the covenant, were called from the womb," so that not through you but through my merciful love I foretold and showed to you the things that would come to destroy your enemies, hurrying to save you in…”
I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
“If some come "from the north" and some "from the sea," that is, from the western parts, and others come "from the land of the Persians" (meaning the highlands), then those in the first clause who are from the land far away are called "of…”
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
“We have often seen the mass of the other nations called "the woodlands." These are the beasts of God's calling worthy to be called up due to their fear.”