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EUSEBIUS (Gr. Eiw«/3io$, from twre/Sijs, pious, cf. the Latin name Pius), a name borne by a large number of bishops and others in the early ages of the Christian Church. Of these the most important are separately noticed below. No less than 25 saints of this n ...

EUSEBIUS OF LAODICEA, though not included among the saints, was noted for his saintly life. He was an Alexandrian by birth, and gained so great a reputation for his self-denial and charity that when in 262 the city was besieged by the troops of the emperor Gal ...

EUGENIUS, the name of four popes. EUGENIUS L, pope from 654 to 657. Elected on the banishment of Martin I. by the emperor Constans II., and at the height of the Monothelite crisis, he showed greater deference than his predecessor to the emperor's wishes, and m

... are by Aristides (recently recovered in translation), Athenagoras ("elegant"), Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Alexandria; in Latin by Minucius Felix, Tertullian (a masculine spirit and phrase-coiner like T. Carlyle, if bitterer still), Lactantius Firmianus, & ...

... ese latter grew in connexion with their story in the Gospels and in Acts.1 Thus Eusebius describes as " evangelists " (cf. Philip the Evangelist in Acts xxi. 8, also Eph. iv. 1 1, 2 Tim. iv. 5) those who " occupied the first rank in the succession to the Apost ...

... have attracted many wealthy people to its neighbourhood. The Groote Kerk of St Eusebius, built in the third quarter of the isth century, contains the marble monument to Charles (d. 1538), the last duke of Geldcrland of the Egmont dynasty. High up against the ...

... neral. Alexander Polyhistor and Abydenus in their excerpts from Berossus, which Eusebius (Chron. i. pp. 29 and 37) and Syncellus (p. 396) have preserved, give the name Astyages to the Median king who reigned in the time of the fall of Nineveh (606 B.C.), and b ...

... pt to harmonize with the traditional identification of Emmaus-Nicopolis held by Eusebius and Jerome. For a curious reading in three old Latin MSS. which makes Emmaus the name of the second traveller on the journey, see Expos. Times, xiii. 429, 477, 56i. Emmend ...

... territory of the tribe of Issachar, it was assigned to Manasseh. In the timiof Eusebius and Jerome Endor existed as a large village 5 m. south of Mount Tabor; there is still a poor village of the same name on the slope of Jebel Dahi, near which are numerous c ...

... identity of the name with Usoos, the Phoenician demi-god (Philo of Byblus, ap. Eusebius, Praep. Evang. i. 10), see Cheyne, Encyc. Bib. col. 1333; Lagrange, Etudes sur les religions semitiques, p. 416 (Paris, 1905) ; Ed. Meyer, Israeliten, 278 sq. (and, on gen ...

... tters. In the East we do not hear of the sacrifice of the body and blood before Eusebius, about the year 300. In the Armenian church of the 1 2th century the idea of a reiterated sacrificial death of Christ still seemed bizarre and barbarous.1 But as early as ...

... H. Morse Stephens (1893); Modern Europe, by W. Alison Phillips (1901, EUROPIUM— EUSEBIUS 5th ed.. 1908). See also T. H. Dyer. History of Modern Europe from the fall of Constantinople, revised and continued to the end of tin1910 century by A. Hnttil (6 vols., L ...

... erting his opinions led to his being accused of heresy by Domnus of Antioch and Eusebius, bishop of Dorylaeum, at a synod presided over by Flavian at Constantinople in 448. As his explanations were not considered satisfactory, the council deposed him from his ...

... l council (that of Ephcsus, 431) to the year 593. It thus continues the work of Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomcn and Thcodorct. Though not wholly trustworthy, and often very credulous, this work is on the whole impartial, and appears to have been compiled from orig ...

... r hand, his learning must not be overestimated. It falls behind that of Origen, Eusebius and Jerome, notwithstanding the superiority of his method It is specially noticeable that Theodore troubled himself little about textual criticism. He simply accepts the t ...

... tribution to history the work is inferior in importance. Its author made use of Eusebius's Life of Constantine' and of the histories of Rufinus, Socrates and Sozomen, and probably of Philostorgius as well. He also used other sources, and made a thorough study ...