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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
- Patristic
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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
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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
Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot;
“If you listen to Luke, you will not hear him calling Matthew a publican nor subordinating him to Thomas, for he knows him to be the greater, and puts him first and Thomas second.”
They came to Jesus and pleaded with Him earnestly, “This man is worthy to have You grant this, for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
“And the elders of the Jews indeed demand favours for a small sum spent in the service of the synagogue, but the Lord not for this, but a higher reason, manifested Himself, wishing in truth to beget a belief in all men by His own…”
The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
“Now He says, that there are three reasons why men destroy the seed implanted in their hearts.”
So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.
“But when the Lord had girded His disciples as soldiers of God with divine virtue and wise admonitions, sending them to the Jews as teachers and physicians, they afterwards went forth, as it follows, And they departed, and went through the towns preaching the gospel…”
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
“For every man naturally dwells upon that which is the object of his desire, and thither he directs all his thoughts, where he supposes his whole interest to rest.”
It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
“Or else, by the leaven our Lord means the Holy Spirit, the Sower proceeding (as it were) from the seed, which is the word of God.”
People will tell you, ‘Look, there He is!’ or ‘Look, here He is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.
“As if he said, If at the coming of Antichrist, his fame shall be spread abroad, as though Christ had appeared, go not out, nor follow him.”
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
“Having used the example of the deluge, that no one might expect a future deluge by water, our Lord cites, secondly, the example of Lot, to show the manner of the destruction of the wicked, namely, that the wrath of God would descend upon them…”
It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
“He does not say that fire came down from heaven upon the wicked Sodomites before that Lot went out from them, just as the deluge did not swallow up the inhabitants of the earth before that Noah entered the ark; for as long as Noah…”
While the people were listening to this, Jesus proceeded to tell them a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God would appear imminently.
“There were some who thought that our Saviour's kingdom would commence at His first coming, and they were expecting it shortly to appear when He was preparing to go up to Jerusalem; so astonished were they by the divine miracles which He did.”
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.
“Now our Lord, foreseeing that there would be a famine in the city, warned His disciples in the siege that was coming, not to betake themselves to the city as a place of refuge, and under God's protection, but rather to depart from thence, and…”
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
“The Instrument of the Word lay dead, but a great stone enclosed the sepulchre, as if death had led Him captive.”
Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
“For he alone believed the women saying that they had seen Angels; and as he was of more ardent feelings than the rest, he anxiously put himself foremost, looking every where for the Lord; as it follows, And stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes…”
One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”
“After Nero and Domitian … persecution was raised against us sporadically among the cities as a result of insurrection among the people.”
You are witnesses of these things.
“But if those things which Christ foretold are already receiving their accomplishment, and His word is perceived by a seeing faith to be living and effectual throughout the whole world; it is time for men not to be unbelieving towards Him who uttered that word.”