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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
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
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
“This entire psalm voices a prayer as spoken by holy people to the person of Christ. For since for our sakes and on our behalf he received insult when he became man, we are taught to join our prayers with his as he prays and…”
They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.
“They say these things will happen in the time of the advent of that Savior. Then all the powers of the adversaries and those hidden and secret enemies of God who have turned their backs on the Savior will be laid low.”
O LORD, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!
“I think that these words had been prophesied by those who had spoken long before David. Since David had learned from the lofty oracles that those words were looking not only at the strength of his own salvation but also that which was going to…”
You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
“But the seed of the godless and the fruit of the wicked are their words, teachings and unrighteous writings, which they have disseminated through people after they are forgotten.”
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
“He is surely showing his surprise here that the Father does not hear him; he regards it as something strange and unusual. But the Father reserved his hearing until the fit time that he should be heard.”
Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
“It is surely the very climax of affliction to have no helper. For Christ went for the salvation of the souls in hades that had so long awaited his arrival.”
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
“The dogs that surrounded him and the council of the wicked were the rulers of the Jews, the scribes and high priests and the Pharisees, who spurred on the whole multitude to demand his blood against themselves and against their own children.”
For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.
“In these words he very aptly proclaims the glorious works after his resurrection, which are fulfilled in the calling of people from all nations and by the election of people from the ends of the earth, the results of which being visible to all eyes…”
The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
“Here the divine prediction clearly prophesies that God will come manifestly, meaning none other but the Word of God. And it shows the reason of his coming, again emphasizing the calling of all nations of the world.”
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
“The 33rd Psalm was spoken by David when he "changed his countenance before Abimelech, and he sent him away, and he left." The current Psalm would be the one following that Psalm in historical sequence.”
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the…
“And he will scrape you away from the tent, and will uproot you from the land of the living forever—so that the righteous, when they see it, will be afraid and will mock him, saying, "Look!”
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
“And this was said as though to Doeg, who was a Syrian by descent, but lived in the midst of Israel—and, I suppose, perhaps even entered the tabernacle of God along with the multitude, pretending to be pious.”
I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name— for it is good— in the presence of Your saints.
“Now, he pointed out that the end of the one who is powerful in wickedness is uprooting and destruction. For it was necessary for the root that bears bitter fruit to be †------ off† by the wise farmer of the universe.”
May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.
“And the oracle in the Psalms, which says about Christ, "There shall rise in his days justice and peace," is in agreement with this. And I think that is why he is called "Prince of Peace" in the prophecy that I quoted before this.”