EUSEBIUS, Bishop of Cmsarea, and father of ecclesiastical history, called Pamphili after his friend, the Martyr Pamphilus, to whom he was devotedly attached, was born in Palestine about A.D. 264. On the martyrdom of his friend he fled into Egypt, where he was thrown into prison. After his release he returned to Cmsarea, and became bishop of that see, A.D. 315. He occupied a conspicuous position at the Council of Nice (327), where he had the honour to sit at the Emperor's right hand. Implicated in the disputes between the Arians and Athanasians, he pursued, theolo gically, a middle course ; and was more eminent for his love of peace than for his orthodoxy. He retained his friendship with the Imperial family till his death, which took place (A. D. 340) while he was actively engaged in preparing, at the request of Constantine, filly parchment MSS. for the use of the churches of I he capital.
The historical and apologetical works of Eusebius are his best. His exegetical Commentaries on the Psalms; Ten books on Isaiah; a fragment on Canticles; Commentary on Luke, and Qmrstiones Evangelic•, are deemed of an inferior order. But his 'Exegetical Introductions,' as Semisch calls them, have attracted attention Onomasti con de Locis Hebreeicis (wept T
of places mentioned in Scripture (Bonfrere, Paris, 163i ; Cleves, Amsterdam, 1707; Larsow et Par they, Berl. 1862). 2. The Ten Evangelical Canons, designed to help the reader to compare the parallel statements in the Gospels. They are given in a very convenient form in Wordsworth's Greek Testament, vol. 1. 3. Zn-rly.tara sal Maets, questions and answers, designed to remove the seeming
dictions in the first and last chapters of the Gospels.
4. A fragment entitled repl Ti2S TOO 071-Co'y Opokcao-las. To the preceding we ought to add the 'EssX2)0-/actrucki`Ioropia, because of its important bearing on the history of the Canon. [CANON.] Good editions of it are Heinichen's, Lipsire, 1827, Svo, 3 vols. ; and Burton's, Oxonii, 1838, 2 vols. There are several English translations, useful edi tions of which have been published by Bohn and I3agster. The whole works of Eusebius were pub lished at Basil, 1542; and at Paris, 1580. (Herzog. Encyc.; Smith's Dic. of G. and R. Biog. ; Nean der's Gen. Ch. Hist. ; Neander's Hist. of Christ. Dogmas; Gieseler's Eccles. Hist. ; Hagenbach's Hist. of Doctrines. )—I. J.