Cruse (1842) Church History of Eusebius (Historia Ecclesiastica), by Philip Schaff et al. When therefore I see the prophetess receiving gold and silver and costly garments, how can I avoid reproving her? 8. 13 And in the aforesaid treatise Of the Philosophy to be derived from Oracles, in addition to what has been quoted, he speaks as follows: 'Moreover, some of them have plainly shown what office is assigned to each, as the Didymaean Apollo does in what follows: (the inquiry was, whether a man is bound to take an oath which one has tendered to him): "Rhea, great mother of the blessed gods,  Croesus a mighty empire shall destroy." So various was their conduct toward us; but we were in deep affliction because we could not bury the bodies. 3. BUT since the matters which have been mentioned are not known to all, it seems to me well to pass from this point to subjects which are self-evident to all the learned, and to examine the oracular responses of most ancient date which are repeated in the mouth of all Greeks, and are taught in the schools of every city to those who resort to them for instruction. We mean Anicetus, and Pius, and Hyginus, and Telesphorus, and Xystus. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. Drawn from my heart in mystic chant,  But why should we say more? 1. That by their darkness and obscurity they concealed their own ignorance, XXIV. Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris, c. xxv. What kind of laws are those which impious, unjust, and cruel persons use against us alone? In bronze, or gold, or silver gleaming bright? apart as a numerous class of good daemons, and the demi-gods as heroes. manifest to all that he who practises the things that are dear to the wicked can never be a friend of the good. Gliding o'er all with undefiled track,  28. Doubts my prophetic soul, yet hope prevails  For they looked on her in her conflict, and beheld with their outward eyes, in the form of their sister, him who was crucified for them, that he might persuade those who believe in him, that every one who suffers for the glory of Christ has fellowship always with the living God. BOOK V INTRODUCTION. And the virgin mother had much joy in receiving alive those whom she had brought forth as dead. He endeavored in every manner to practice and exercise his servants against the servants of God, not only shutting us out from houses and baths and markets, but forbidding any of us to be seen in any place whatever. $39.95 $31.16. The servants of Christ residing at Vienne and Lyons, in Gaul, to the brethren through out Asia and Phrygia, who hold the same faith and hope of redemption, peace and grace and glory from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. They were also so zealous in their imitation of Christ —'who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God,' Philippians 2:6 — that, though they had attained such honor, and had borne witness, not once or twice, but many times — having been brought back to prison from the wild beasts, covered with burns and scars and wounds — yet they did not proclaim themselves witnesses, nor did they suffer us to address them by this name. He fell from the presbyterate of the Church, and Blastus was involved in a similar fall. Also let Artemis 'Latona's daughter' care for her spotted hounds, because, as a huntress, she wages war afield with the wild bea,sts, and for the other goddesses in like manner the offices enumerated. 3. 487, I. So they, not knowing who he was, invoked him as the helper of their forefathers. To Zeus and all who in Olympus dwell:  He was led around the amphitheater, a tablet being carried before him on which was written in the Roman language 'This is Attalus the Christian,' and the people were filled with indignation against him. Eusebius von Caesarea (* 260/64 in Palaestina; 339 oder 340 in Caesarea; altgriechisch Εὐσέβιος ὁ τῆς Καισαρείας, deutsch Eusebios von Kaisareia, lateinisch Eusebius Caesariensis) war ein spätantiker christlicher Theologe und Geschichtsschreiber. With wildered steps her fair Osiris seeks. Of Phoebus, let my tongue speak reverent words. 11. What therefore did this wonderful deity do? That with immortal gods, in life, in death,  'But I pass over these matters just as you gods do, and also the fact that after letting the murderers escape ye bade them send the innocent to death, yea, sent them to a man whom ye were about to exhibit as a judge of all mankind, but who in this very case knew not how to give judgement. Service unseemly laid on powers divine. 42. Such practices the same author has mentioned again in his Epistle to the before-mentioned Egyptian, as though he were consulting a prophet upon secret truths, and requesting to be taught by him the words in which they accomplish these results. 187 a 1 For with all his might the adversary fell upon us, giving us a foretaste of his unbridled activity at his future coming. Lo! the prayers of Pallas have been foreshown, which were able to turn the anger of Zeus: or if not, even this result is not unprovided for by the prophet; for "Pallas is not able to soften Zeus." 22. For the And, after the scourging, after the wild beasts, after the roasting seat, she was finally enclosed in a net, and thrown before a bull. Others, again, drifting into a worse error, consider that there are not only two, but three natures. That they cannot withdraw of their own accord, X. He has made it clear that not only the features are dear, but that also, as I said, the gods themselves are confined therein, and dwell in the underlying likeness as it were in a sacred place: for they could not be supported on earth, except on sacred ground: and that ground is sacred which bears the image of the deity; but if the image be taken away, the bond which held the deity on earth is loosed. 1. Wherefore also he examined them again, and beheaded those who appeared to possess Roman citizenship, but he sent the others to the wild beasts. 17. We show you indeed that also in Alexandria they keep it on the same day that we do. But though some of these by accident were rightly so named, the greater part received names not at all befitting them, but changed in derivation from the names of gods.'. That the prophetic and oracular shrines among the heathen belonged to evil daemons, V. That the mythical narratives related concerning gods contain covert histories of daemons, VI. p. 421 B, 11. For what is the cause that they give themselves up grudgingly and not of their own free will to those who need help? Which man inspir'd by heavenly counsels learn'd. Further proof that the prophetic and oracular shrines among the heathen belonged to evil daemons, and how they have all been destroyed and have failed since our Saviour's teaching in the Gospel : p 178 b: II. 'For he would have profited more had he been told in this other way: "Archilochus, come to thy senses, in poverty make no bewailing. EUSEBIUSCHURCHHISTORY: BOOK VI , Index. '. And though he used much supplication, and showed the welts of the stripes which he had received, yet scarcely was he taken back into communion. 39. It is expressed thus: "Strong to compel and weighty is this name. 'PERHAPS, however, such answers as I have described are those of an intentional mischief-maker; find we ought rather to bring forward for judgement his other answers which were given to the Athenians. For the passionless nature can neither be enticed, nor forced, nor compelled by necessity. 33. And there are writings of certain brethren older than the times of Victor, which they wrote in behalf of the truth against the heathen, and against the heresies which existed in their day. But so far do they come short of raising the dead, as the Lord raised them, and the apostles through prayer. And when the blessed Polycarp was at Rome in the time of Anicetus, and they disagreed a little about certain other things, they immediately made peace with one another, not caring to quarrel over this matter. About ten of these proved abortions, [The reading of ἐξέτρωσαν here is generally supported by scholars. He reigned over Lydia, having received the government as it had come down to him from a long line of ancestors. 'Give then, I should say: for no such gift as this didst thou ever yet promise to any man. 313, tenth book ca. The so-called "first book" of the Chronicle, containing the evidence, is translated here. I weave the tangled web of human fates?"'. And since I have once mentioned these matters, there can be no objection to hearing other refutations also; and first, that in which the same author says that he had been himself deceived by the Clarian Apollo: he writes as follows:  'Now that they love the symbols of their features is signified by Hecate comparing them with what men love, as follows: "What mortal longs not for the features carv'd  When the foe shall have taken (whatever the limit of Cecrops  Many the shrines of the gods he will give to a fiery destruction. 188 b 1 Plutarch, On the Cessation of Oracles, c. xxi. I shall still say that this comes from the same company, and request Lycurgus not to desist, for the chance that he may go back to Sparta with some political lesson received from thee. The followers of Montanus, Alcibiades and Theodotus in Phrygia were now first giving wide circulation to their assumption in regard to prophecy — for the many other miracles that, through the gift of God, were still wrought in the different churches caused their prophesying to be readily credited by many — and as dissension arose concerning them, the brethren in Gaul set forth their own prudent and most orthodox judgment in the matter, and published also several epistles from the witnesses that had been put to death among them. After Antoninus had been emperor for nineteen years, Commodus received the government. 3. This story is related by non-Christian writers who have been pleased to treat the times referred to, and it has also been recorded by our own people. [OENOMAUS] . The blessed apostles having founded and established the church, entrusted the office of the episcopate to Linus. It will hand down to imperishable remembrance the discipline and the much-tried fortitude of the athletes of religion, the trophies won from demons, the victories over invisible enemies, and the crowns placed upon all their heads. But this, as it appears, is entirely fallacious. 12. THOUGH the statements already set forth were sufficient to prove that those who have been honoured among the heathen as gods in every city and country district were not gods nor yet good daemons, but the very contrary, yet I am not sorry still further to strengthen the same argument even superabundantly by more numerous and ample proofs, since the demonstration thereof clearly shows the deliverance from the evils of former times which was provided for all men by our Saviour's teaching in the Gospel Hear therefore how Greeks themselves confess that their oracles have failed, and never so failed from the beginning until after the times 17. Or was it that Zeus was wroth not with the men, but with the stones and timber? Then hoping to succeed somewhat beyond his forefathers, he was minded to show piety towards the gods, and, after making trial of them all, he preferred the Apollo of Delphi, and proceeded to adorn his temple with bowls and ingots of gold, and a countless multitude of offerings, and made it in a short time the richest of all temples in the world; nor in his magnanimity did he omit all that sufficed for sacrifices. Among these are Philip, one of the twelve apostles, who fell asleep in Hierapolis; and his two aged virgin daughters, and another daughter, who lived in the Holy Spirit and now rests at Ephesus; and, moreover, John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon the bosom of the Lord, and, being a priest, wore the sacerdotal plate. 'THAT they themselves suggested how even their statues ought to be made, and of what kind of material, shall be shown by the response of Hecate in the following form: "My image purify, as I shall show:  He killed with his spear Carnus son of Phylander, an Aetolian knight, doing, as I think, quite rightly. 'Must not then these be clear proofs that a godlike athleticism is honoured by the gods? Nevertheless, they found the object of their attempt impracticable, as the divine power of our Saviour always more than conquered them all, and overthrew all the insurrections of the evil daemons against His teaching, and drove the daemons themselves away; for evil daemons verily they were, though falsely supposed to be gods or even good daemons. 30, "Wretches, why sit ye here? Pothinus having died with the other martyrs in Gaul at ninety years of age, Irenæus succeeded him in the episcopate of the church at Lyons. [OENOMAUS] 3. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) Subject of the present work. Book 19. 287-290, 30. He says that this heresy was divided in his time into various opinions; and while describing those who occasioned the division, he refutes accurately the falsehoods devised by each of them. Cypselus, son of Aetion, king of illustrious Corinth." 6. Tell me, does a prophet dye his hair? My email address is feedback732 at newadvent.org. And when a plague presently fell upon them, and Aristodemus died, they returned again, and Temenus came and complained of his failure, and was told that he had brought upon himself the penalty for the messenger of the god, and he heard the poem concerning his vow to the Carnean Apollo, which told him in the oracular answer, "Thou sufferest vengeance for my prophet's death. But at the sound of that strange song  7. 51. of light;  6. 7. 13. They say that these things happened in this manner. All ten books of Eusebius' famous church history are presented here complete in a superb and authoritative translation. Kronos and Aphrodite in due turn,  179 d 9 Porphyry, Against the Christians, 4. 'Perhaps, however, thou wilt add something more, if Lycurgus entreat thee to speak plainly. So Aristomachus the son of Aridaeus, because his father had perished in the invasion, comes to thee to learn about the way: for he was eager as his father had been. Eusebius Pamphili of Caesarea. 63. For thus they thought to avenge their own deities. Images. And he went by sea, after making them think that he was making his incursion by land, and he encamped midway between Navatus and Typaeum. For he spoke of one principle, as also our doctrine does. But the first were treated afterwards as murderers and defiled, and were punished twice as severely as the others. For various degrees of virtue and vice are found in daemons just as in men. : der Gottesfürchtige; † 17. 5. In the tenth year of the reign of Commodus, Victor succeeded Eleutherus, the latter having held the episcopate for thirteen years. But even thus they did not hear a word from Sanctus except the confession which he had uttered from the beginning. The kind of methods by which their wonderful gods are subjected to the impostors, XI. 185 c 3 Pindar, Fr. Surely it was their duty at any rate to set an example of temperance, and to suggest what was profitable and beneficial to mankind: but they did nothing of the kind. ", "I come at sound of thy persuasive prayer,  An illustration of an audio speaker. The people hold Messenian soil, so now  My matchless strength, and glow of lordly fire,  And thus they died, and ended their lives like the traitor Judas. He writes that there are still extant letters of the most intelligent Emperor Marcus in which he testifies that his army, being on the point of perishing with thirst in Germany, was saved by the prayers of the Christians. She was preserved thus for another contest, that, being victorious in more conflicts, she might make the punishment of the crooked serpent irrevocable; and, though small and weak and despised, yet clothed with Christ the mighty and conquering Athlete, she might arouse the zeal of the brethren, and, having overcome the adversary many times might receive, through her conflict, the crown incorruptible. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Complete Works of Eusebius of Caesarea (5 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible. Why need I mention the bishop and martyr Sagaris who fell asleep in Laodicea, or the blessed Papirius, or Melito, the Eunuch who lived altogether in the Holy Spirit, and who lies in Sardis, awaiting the episcopate from heaven, when he shall rise from the dead? 'To this it is worth while to add the story of Croesus. . 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