7. But the man went on "the broad-bosomed," and did not succeed; and again, an excuse is found in the death of thy messenger Carnus. 1. Even the more reasonable, and those who had seemed to sympathize somewhat, reproached them often, saying, 'Where is their God, and what has their religion, which they have chosen rather than life, profited them?'. For either these were all impostors' tricks, and symbols of the passions which affect us, veiled by the titles which they ascribe to the gods, or else we have been unconsciously holding ideas concerning the deity contrary to his real condition.'. 3. 185 c 3 Pindar, Fr. For again the gods were wroth because of an insult to the statue of a conqueror in the pentathlum, and for this the Locrians were famished, like the Thasians, until they found a remedy in thy oracle, running thus: "Hold the dishonoured in honour, and then shalt thou plough up thy land.". And he not only knows, but also receives, The Shepherd, writing as follows: Well did the Scripture speak, saying, 'First of all believe that God is one, who has created and completed all things,' etc. And if he had not power to do this, he should at least have provided that they should suffer no harm, and not be conquered. He mentions also the memoirs of a certain apostolic presbyter, whose name he passes by in silence, and gives his expositions of the sacred Scriptures. 24. They endured again the customary running of the gauntlet and the violence of the wild beasts, and everything which the furious people called for or desired, and at last, the iron chair in which their bodies being roasted, tormented them with the fumes. "', 'So then he exhorts them to rub out the lines, that he may go free; for these hold him fast, as indeed does also the form of dress in which he is arrayed, because it bears representations of the gods who have been invoked.'. Sea spits them out upon the solid earth;  For when I was a boy, I saw you in lower Asia with Polycarp, moving in splendor in the royal court, and endeavoring to gain his approbation. 205 b 4 Plutarch, On the Cessation of Oracles, c. 5, p. 411 E, 21. Come then, let us now at last proceed to the actual proofs. Valesius finds in this word a figure taken from the athletic combats; for before the contests began the combatants were examined, and those found eligible were admitted (εἰσκρίνεσθαι), while the others were rejected (ἐκκρίνεσθαι).] Wherefore on this point also hear how his censure is expressed. 'If, however, he was thus playing with him not from ignorance but from insolence and malice, heavens! But that those who use the arts of unbelievers for their heretical opinions and adulterate the simple faith of the Divine Scriptures by the craft of the godless, are far from the faith, what need is there to say? Herod. 315, epilogue ca. Did he fight in defence of his friends? manifest to all that he who practises the things that are dear to the wicked can never be a friend of the good. And this variety in its observance has not originated in our time; but long before in that of our ancestors. And what right hast thou to the savour of sacrifices? 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. 'I suppose that this Lycurgus never had a nurse, nor ever sat in a company of old men, from whom, as well as from her, he might have heard nobler and wiser lessons than these. Of these the one — the Ionian — was in Greece, the other in Magna Græcia; the one of them was from Cœle-Syria, the other from Egypt. 'For they give out answers for their own compulsion, as will be shown by Apollo's answer as to means of compelling him. 5. [OENOMAUS] You have therefore the date of the overthrow of the daemons, of which there was no record at any other time; just as you had the abolition of human sacrifice among the Gentiles as not having occurred until after the preaching of the doctrine of the Gospel had reached all mankind. ", 'He therefore who solved that riddle was as good as thyself in discerning that the city of the Athenians was the Persian's avowed cause for the invasion, and the whole expedition was directed against this city first and chiefly. 'For at that time not only the gods were believed, but also cats and crows, and the delusions of dreams. We observe the exact day; neither adding, nor taking away. A mortal born my vows I pay;  modesty or any other devout practice: as also the din of battle, and conflicts, and wars are dear to Athena, and not peace nor the things of peace. Those in Palestine whom we have recently mentioned, Narcissus and Theophilus, and with them Cassius, bishop of the church of Tyre, and Clarus of the church of Ptolemais, and those who met with them, having stated many things respecting the tradition concerning the passover which had come to them in succession from the apostles, at the close of their writing add these words: 2. His son Temenus, unhappy son of hapless sire, was the third who came to thee, and thou gavest the same promise to him as to his father Aristomachus: and he said, "But my father trusted thee, and perished in the invasion.". 14. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus (c. 326) translated by C.F. but didst not further know whether it would be. Chapter 25. Hold in her hand a blazing torch,  The second class is that which 'Why so? Let us then examine closely what observations were made in answer thereto in the criticism before quoted. 58. Well then what would these things contribute towards the divinely favoured and blessed life? 'For, I suppose, the god invoked was not an Egyptian by birth: and even if he was an Egyptian, yet surely he did not use the Egyptian language, nor any human language at all. Conceives, and bears a mighty rock, (to crush  Nay, nothing of the kind. Now listen to the proofs of this. 'Now with regard to the death of such beings, I have heard a story from a man who was no fool nor braggart. 'THOU art ready to speak of marriage also: "From Argive pastures choose a well-bred foal  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. 'And thou too, the prophet so bold and so ready also to run needless risks for nothing, dost thou not cry pity? 'By Apollo! has been advanced to great honour because of the benefits said to be conferred by them on our common life: and this kind they themselves acknowledge to have been begotten of men, bringing forward as examples the so-called heroes, Heracles, and the Dioscuri, and Dionysus, and the corresponding deities among the barbarians. 'As for example, if a beetle did not spend his life and his old age on that same dunghill on which he was begotten, but fell in with an adverse wind, and a cruel beetle-daemon, who caught him up into the air and carried him away by force to some other land and some other dunghill, and then he came to Delphi and inquired which was the dunghill of his fatherland, and what land would receive him when dead.'. But the bishops of Asia, led by Polycrates, decided to hold to the old custom handed down to them. 33. 20. Thou know'st the secret spell, which mortal man  : der Gottesfürchtige; † 17. And how many psalms and hymns, written by the faithful brethren from the beginning, celebrate Christ the Word of God, speaking of him as Divine. More. But even thus they did not hear a word from Sanctus except the confession which he had uttered from the beginning. For why do not rather the gods and Asclepius prevail over the power of Jesus? For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. 2 and the leader of them all in malice, were regarded among all men as the greatest of gods; the memory also of those long dead came to be thought worthy of greater worship. Select Works of Eusebius of Caesarea (5 Books) (English Edition) eBook: Eusebius of Caesarea: Amazon.de: Kindle-Shop 'But to some people of Nicaea he gave this response: "Nought can restore the Pythian voice divine:  With wildered steps her fair Osiris seeks. For thus the demonstration of the matters which lie before us, being derived from the very friends of their gods, who have both been esteemed devout, and have accurately examined the account of their own religion, will be found complete and irrefutable. For nine persons were found dead; and when the inhabitants of the country district inquired the cause, the god made answer: "Lo! 'BUT what utterly perplexes me is, how, though invoked as superiors, they receive orders as inferiors, and while requiring their worshipper to be just, submit when bidden themselves to do injustice; and, while they would not listen to one who invokes them, if defiled by sensual pleasure, do not hesitate themselves to lead any whom they meet into lawless indulgence. So far then let these quotations suffice from this work of Porphyry. 'Now too it is not difficult to see the stage-play, and the wheeling in of the gods, the one beseeching and the other refusing to yield, so useful for the coming event, and the unexpected turn of the war, the one if they should be saved, the other if they should be destroyed. And from the head down even to the feet  Does a prophet play with tables and dice? Others, of whom Florinus was chief, flourished at Rome. Then by giving to their own foul and unbridled lusts the name of gods, an Eros, and Aphrodite, and Desire, and by calling speech Hermes, and reasoning Athena, they have adopted these also in their own theology, and thus remodelled human actions into the fifth kind of deities. That they cannot withdraw of their own accord, X. But those of the Phrygians that were deceived were few in number. We need not mention his robberies and other daring deeds for which he was punished, but the archives contain them. And on the next day he entered along with Attalus. What divine teaching and exhortation! 5. (1885) St. John and the Robber, from Tracts for the Times, 1833; Account of the Martyrs … On me is done.'. 29. But the devil, thinking that he had already consumed Biblias, who was one of those who had denied Christ, desiring to increase her condemnation through the utterance of blasphemy, brought her again to the torture, to compel her, as already feeble and weak, to report impious things concerning us. But we have given the names of those alone, the soundness of whose faith has come down to us in writing. Then finally the holy witnesses endured sufferings beyond description, Satan striving earnestly that some of the slanders might be uttered by them also. Perhaps then on this account the soul is of threefold form and parts: and one part of it is irascible, and another concupiscent, by which latter it is invited to amorous indulgence. As God lives in the heavens, the blessed Sotas in Anchialus desired to cast the demon out of Priscilla, but the hypocrites did not permit him. 12, 'NE'ER mid the immortal gods an idle threat  Among them was Irenæus, who, sending letters in the name of the brethren in Gaul over whom he presided, maintained that the mystery of the resurrection of the Lord should be observed only on the Lord's day. 'Thou bid'st them to be manly: this we have often heard even from the cowardly. 140 (Rawlinson's translation), 36. Exalt the praises of the archer god. And so, without telling them anything of what they had come for, thou sentedst them away with the idea that they had heard something good.'. One of them was to Blastus On Schism; another to Florinus On Monarchy, or That God is not the Author of Evil. So much in regard to Victor. 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. For even I myself, who am no prophet, should have discerned this, and bidden not only the Lydian king, but also the Athenians to turn their backs and flee. Ferrar (1920) -- Book 5. 28. Does a prophet delight in adornment? For we desire, if it be not wrong, some of us worthy fame, others sacred crowns, others equality with the gods, and others immortality itself. 'What meaning have the very prayers, which speak of him who arose out of a marsh, and is seated upon the lotus, and voyages in a ship, and changes his shapes hourly, and is transfigured according to the signs of the zodiac? In the fifth book he speaks as follows concerning the Apocalypse of John, and the number of the name of Antichrist: As these things are so, and this number is found in all the approved and ancient copies, and those who saw John face to face confirm it, and reason teaches us that the number of the name of the beast, according to the mode of calculation among the Greeks, appears in its letters.... 6. In the times of Clement, a serious dissension having arisen among the brethren in Corinth, the church of Rome sent a most suitable letter to the Corinthians, reconciling them in peace, renewing their faith, and proclaiming the doctrine lately received from the apostles. For of what each man desired, the trouble came first, while the joy was only expected.'. For they conceded cheerfully the appellation of Witness to Christ 'the faithful and true Witness,' Revelation 3:14 and 'firstborn of the dead,' Revelation 1:5 and prince of the life of God; and they reminded us of the witnesses who had already departed, and said, 'They are already witnesses whom Christ has deemed worthy to be taken up in their confession, having sealed their testimony by their departure; but we are lowly and humble confessors.' For if it were necessary that his name should be declared clearly at the present time, it would have been announced by him who saw the revelation. Plutarch indeed, in the discourse which he composed On Isis and the gods of the Egyptians, speaks as follows word for word: But surely it was no divination of a god to use such ambiguity in ignorance of the future, when he ought to have given help, and appeared opportunely as saviour of the Greeks, and rather to have procured the victory over the enemies and barbarians for the Greeks, as his own friends. Die Universität Fribourg in der Schweiz hat sich die Mühe gemacht, die Werke der Kirchenväter zu digitalisieren und online verfügbar zu machen. Yet, though he should have been humble on this account, he dared to boast as a martyr, and in imitation of the apostle, he wrote a certain catholic epistle, to instruct those whose faith was better than his own, contending for words of empty sound, and blaspheming against the Lord and the apostles and the holy Church. 15. Fly, fly to the ends of creation,  But as he paid little regard to the visions, because he was ensnared by the first position among them and by that shameful covetousness which destroys a great many, he was scourged by holy angels, and punished severely through the entire night. For what indeed did their admirable gods, or rather their utterly wicked daemons, care for these things? But how daring this offense is, it is not likely that they themselves are ignorant. 'For what then, O ancient interpreter of the religion of the Greeks, as Plato calls thee, didst thou deify this man? 37. But when the governor learned that he was a Roman, he commanded him to be taken back with the rest of those who were in prison concerning whom he had written to Cæsar, and whose answer he was awaiting. And thou didst not shrink from telling Whom all men know lord of the seven-string'd lyre.". 12. Der unter Marcellus I. begonnene Streit über die Wiederaufnahme der Christen, die während der Verfolgung durch Diokletian abgefallen waren, setzte sich unter ihm fort. These things being so, I think it is necessary for us to put aside the matters that do not even need refutation, and to consider the sequel of our argument concerning Which Vespasian, though he had conquered the Jews, did not regard; which Trajan partially annulled, forbidding Christians to be sought after; which neither Adrian, though inquisitive in all matters, nor he who was called Pius sanctioned. by F. C. Conybeare (HTML at tertullian.org) how godlike a deed! And being asked, what name God has, he replied, 'God has not a name as man has.'. As the proofs which confirm this are many, we will bring forward a few out of the number, not to leave our statement without witness.'. Bacchylus at the same time was bishop of Corinth in Greece, and Polycrates of the parish of Ephesus. Matthew 7:15 But others imagining themselves possessed of the Holy Spirit and of a prophetic gift, were elated and not a little puffed up; and forgetting the distinction of the Lord, they challenged the mad and insidious and seducing spirit, and were cheated and deceived by him. That the treatment of Lycurgus the law-giver of the Lacedaemonians was not worthy of a god, XXIX. EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI: ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, BOOKS 1-5 | ROY J. DEFERRARI | download | B–OK. 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. For seven of my relatives were bishops; and I am the eighth. 'Or wilt thou add this also, as the other proof at once of his manliness and his friendship with the gods, that having stepped into a sacred chest, and pulled the cover over it, he could not be caught by his pursuers when they wished to drag him out? Eusebius (griech. For Cæsar commanded that they should be put to death, but that any who might deny should be set free. 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. BOOK V CONTENTS I. For you can compare those prepared by them at an earlier date with those which they corrupted later, and you will find them widely different. 5. Falls like a glory round the prophet's head,  A long-drawn hymn thou canst not understand.". The first of these was Plutarch, who was mentioned just above CHAPTER 5. Download books for free. 14. These mix with resin, myrrh, and frankincense,  'Then he pretends forsooth to foretell a siege not only of the other buildings in the city, but also of the very temples consecrated to the gods. 4. And that which was spoken by our Lord was fulfilled: 'The time will come when whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.' 'When therefore he was come off Pelodes, as there was neither wind nor sea, Thamus looking from the poop towards the land spake as he had heard, that "The Great Pan is dead": and he had no sooner ceased speaking than there came a loud lamentation, not of one but of many, mingled with amazement. These, then, after their life had continued for a long time through the great conflict, were at last sacrificed, having been made throughout that day a spectacle to the world, in place of the usual variety of combats. 'Now that the gods so summoned are eager to withdraw, will be shown by such passages as the following, where they say: "But now release the king; for mortal frame  Eusebius of Caesarea: Praeparatio Evangelica (Preparation for the Gospel). For when they tried to cut through the Isthmus there and make their city an island, at first they stuck close to the work; but when they had to face the labour, they were for giving up and consulting the oracle. His words are as follows: I could mention the bishops who were present, whom I summoned at your desire; whose names, should I write them, would constitute a great multitude. BOOK VI Index CHAPTER 1. I refer to Justin and Miltiades and Tatian and Clement and many others, in all of whose works Christ is spoken of as God. 61. 'And it seems to me that thou art no better than the so-called marvel-mongers, nay not even than the rest of the quacks and sophists. For the joy of martyrdom, and the hope of the promises, and love for Christ, and the Spirit of the Father supported the latter; but their consciences so greatly distressed the former that they were easily distinguishable from all the rest by their very countenances when they were led forth. organized and living body, uses the soul as a basis, and through the body, as its organ, utters speech.'. Shall rise, encircled with the festal grace  Even this class, though it was wicked throughout, they have divided into two, the mischievous and the beneficent, and given them the titles of good and bad. Paul speaks of this Linus in his Epistles to Timothy. 20. He writes as follows: 1. 'BUT, thou wilt say, one must not give the same advice to the Lacedaemonians. Having given in his work many other arguments in refutation of their blasphemous falsehood, he adds the following words: 3. Around the waist long snakes run to and fro,  Such, he said, was the case also with the legends of Typhon and the Titans, that there were battles of daemons against daemons, then banishments of the conquered, or punishments by a god of those who had committed sins, such as Typhon is said to have committed upon Osiris, and Kronos on Uranos; gods, whose honours among us have become more obscure, or have altogether ceased, since they have departed into another world. We show you indeed that also in Alexandria they keep it on the same day that we do. 2. And, after the scourging, after the wild beasts, after the roasting seat, she was finally enclosed in a net, and thrown before a bull. These things are taken from the second book. The author writes thus: 'FOR this reason, if thou canst not persuade them to learn something worthy of the school of a god instead of their contemptible questions, I recommend thee to take a rod to them rather than to say to Archilochus of Paros after he had thrown away his substance in political follies, and in sorrow had come to consult thee: "To Thasos, Archilochus, go, and dwell in that glorious island.". Victorious over everything, they departed to God. He killed with his spear Carnus son of Phylander, an Aetolian knight, doing, as I think, quite rightly. But that those who wish may know concerning Alexander, he was tried by Æmilius Frontinus, proconsul at Ephesus; not on account of the Name, but for the robberies which he had committed, being already an apostate. 7. 216 b 5 Herodotus, vii. That, being unable to give any help in the misfortunes of war, they used to quibble and deceive their suppliants by ambiguous responses, XXVII. 'Thus his statue of bronze exhibited a power beyond the images of other men, by falling down upon his enemy who was scourging it, which seems to show a kind of divine solicitude. 4. Moreover, he promises to refute Marcion from his own writings, in a special work. This work is not a writing artfully constructed for display; but my notes are stored up for old age, as a remedy against forgetfulness; an image without art, and a rough sketch of those powerful and animated words which it was my privilege to hear, as well as of blessed and truly remarkable men. And what they say might be plausible, if first of all the Divine Scriptures did not contradict them. 'But the senseless Thasians, having no experience in things divine, were indignant and accused the statue of a crime, and exacted punishment, and ventured to sink it in the sea. And others floating midway on the winds,  4. For I learn that the Solymi, who are neighbours of the Lycians, used to pay the highest honours to Kronos: but after he killed their chief rulers Arsalos, and Arytos, and Tosibis, and fled, and departed to some place or other----for they cannot tell whither----he was neglected, but Arsalos and his companions were addressed as gods by the name Sciri, and the Lycians make their imprecations both public and private in their name. For since Jesus began to be honoured, no one ever heard of any public assistance from the gods.' And the autograph signatures of many other bishops who agreed with them are contained in the same letter. Therefore thou wast afraid lest thou shouldest bid them To this I will append what he says by way of proving that the gods whom we are discussing are also flatterers of tyrants. voices, is now completely forsaken by them, just as streams run dry, and a great drought of inspiration has overspread the land. 55. 19. But not without poetry, for that is the language of gods, as well as of god-like men like Archilochus. But why should we say more? And though thou shouldest have saved Carnus, who was but one, how didst thou suffer him to die, and for his death didst bring an Homeric plague upon the multitude, and dictate vows for the plague? "', By these and the like quotations this noble philosopher of the Greeks, this admirable theologian, this initiate in secret mysteries, exhibits The Philosophy to be derived from Oracles as containing secret oracles of the gods, while openly proclaiming the plots laid against men by their wicked and truly daemoniacal power. the nature of the soul and the bodily sense, which is susceptible of pleasure and pain, and in all the feelings which, being engendered by these alternations, trouble some of them more and some less. Others, again, drifting into a worse error, consider that there are not only two, but three natures. 3. The enemy of God's Church, who is emphatically a hater of good and a lover of evil, and leaves untried no manner of craft against men, was again active in causing strange heresies to spring up against the Church. And because he was being drawn away by the error of Valentinus, Irenæus wrote his work On the Ogdoad, in which he shows that he himself had been acquainted with the first successors of the apostles. 47. As the so-called Phrygian heresy was still flourishing in Phrygia in his time, Apollonius also, an ecclesiastical writer, undertook its refutation, and wrote a special work against it, correcting in detail the false prophecies current among them and reproving the life of the founders of the heresy. And that he himself, being sent by the Emperor to make an investigation and survey, sailed to the nearest of the desert islands, which had but few inhabitants, and these all sacred persons inviolable to the Britons. The History of the Church contains ten books that breakdown Christianity’s first three hundred years chronologically. 34. He speaks as follows: For the old man Apelles, when conversing with us, was refuted in many things which he spoke falsely; whence also he said that it was not at all necessary to examine one's doctrine, but that each one should continue to hold what he believed. Hear ye my bidding, and offer at home in pious devotion  For he asks as in doubt, and speaks somewhat as follows. 40. These following the wolf of Pontus, and, like him, unable to fathom the division of things, became reckless, and without giving any proof asserted two principles. 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. Lustrations your folly to purge; so dwell ye in wisdom for ever  And again after a little he says: For if after Quadratus and Ammia in Philadelphia, as they assert, the women with Montanus received the prophetic gift, let them show who among them received it from Montanus and the women. Of these we would note particularly the writings of Heraclitus On the Apostle, and those of Maximus on the question so much discussed among heretics, the Origin of Evil, and on the Creation of Matter. and that not once only but every year, to be sacrificed in Crete in the presence of Minos: so that even to the time of Socrates, more than five hundred years afterwards, this dreadful and most inhuman tribute was still kept in memory among the Athenians. For almost in every city and village you might in old times see kings, and tyrants, and local governors, and lords, and ethnarchies and multitudes of rulers, by reason of which they were continually rushing into wars against one another, and ever perpetually at work in raiding country districts, and besieging cities, and making slaves and captives of their neighbours, being wildly driven by their local daemons into mutual wars. He adds to this the following account, which I may properly insert: Among these were the presbyters before Soter, who presided over the church which you now rule. So far Plutarch. In the second book of the same treatise he shows that manifestations of divine and miraculous power continued to his time in some of the churches. But though matters were in this shape, they communed together, and Anicetus conceded the administration of the eucharist in the church to Polycarp, manifestly as a mark of respect. To ether's whirling depths. 'When I heard this, what, thinkest thou, was my indignation, at being forsooth robbed by him of my "virtue"? 15. Each startled woodsman dropp'd his axe,  Bow to the mystic spells that bind the gods, 

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