EUSEBIUS (u-se'bi-iis) OF C/S SAREA, surnamed IDamphili, Church historian: b. probably Caesarea, Palestine, 264 A.D. ; d. there, about 349. He is known as Eusebius Crsariensis and Eusebius Pamphili, that is, Pamphilus's Eusebius —a style assumed after the martyrdom of his instructor, Saint Pam philus. He was chosen bishop of Caesarea 314. He took a prominent part in the Council of Niczea (325), and was present at the Synods of Antioch (330) and Tyre (335). With the ex ception of Origen and Jerome he was the most learned of the fathers, and is regarded as the father of ecclesiastical history. His moderation procured him the favor of Constantine, who de clared him fitted to be the bishop of the whole world. Though he never subscribed to the views held by Arius and the Arians regarding the Godhead of Christ, he being averse to dis cussing the nature of the Trinity, was always friendly toward them and thus incurred censure as being at best a semi-Arian. Before the rise of Arianism he wrote a spirited defense of the Christian faith in refutation of a book by one Hierocles, who contended that the noted impostor, Apollonius of Tyana, was superior to Jesus Christ in sanctity and in miraculous powers. Eusebius wrote two treatises which
have come down to our time: (1) the 'Prepara tion,' and (2) the 'Demonstration of the Gos pel,' usually designated by their Latin tides. (Praparatio Evangelica,) Wemonstratio Evan gelica.) The argument of the former is the groundlessness of idolatry, the impostures of the oracles, the monstrous impieties of the heathen mythology and theology ; and the author shows that the doctrine of the unity of the Godhead and the truth of his revealed religion is as ancient as the world. In the 'Demon stratio' the argument is that the law and the prophecies of the „Jewish scriptures clearly foreshow Jesus Chnst and the Gospel Of his other works extant the chief is his 'History of the Church from the Time of Its Founder to the y.ear 323.) It has the defect that in it no mention is made of the wickedness or dis sensions of Christians as not being edifying to the faithful. See Scheme, Weltchronik des Eusebius in ihrer Bearbeitung durch Hierony mus' (1900).