And no wonder perhaps. Then, after stating fully his own opinion, he adds: When I said to him, Tell me how you know this or how can you assert that there is one principle, he replied that the prophecies refuted themselves, because they have said nothing true; for they are inconsistent, and false, and self-contradictory. Thy fair garden, Heracles,  For those greater than I have said 'We ought to obey God rather than man.' Athenaeus, xiii. 20. 1. 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. Source. 37. Ferrar (1920) -- Book 5. But those who were worthy were seized day by day, filling up their number, so that all the zealous persons, and those through whom especially our affairs had been established, were collected together out of the two churches. Eusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points: 1. the successions of bishops in the principal sees 2. the history of Christian teachers 3. the history of heresies 4. the history of the Jews 5. the relations to the heathen 6. the martyrdoms. While the wicked men hoped, by the continuance and severity of his tortures to wring something from him which he ought not to say, he girded himself against them with such firmness that he would not even tell his name, or the nation or city to which he belonged, or whether he was bond or free, but answered in the Roman tongue to all their questions, 'I am a Christian.' Yet in proof of the absurdity of these practices, and at the same time in our own defence for withdrawing from them, let us bring forward our witness to these facts, who is regarded as a wise man among his acquaintances, and both knows and expounds accurately his own system. Therefore they exposed them to all the terrible sufferings and took them through the entire round of torture, repeatedly urging them to swear, but being unable to effect this; for Ponticus, encouraged by his sister so that even the heathen could see that she was confirming and strengthening him, having nobly endured every torture, gave up the ghost. We did not do this, but we promised to write it out as soon as the Lord permitted us, and to send it to them speedily. And as he remembered their words, and what he heard from them concerning the Lord, and concerning his miracles and his teaching, having received them from eyewitnesses of the 'Word of life,' 1 John 1:1 Polycarp related all things in harmony with the Scriptures. And these indeed were burned, but he continued unbending and unyielding, firm in his confession, and refreshed and strengthened by the heavenly fountain of the water of life, flowing from the bowels of Christ. Then far-seeing Zeus grants this to the prayers of Athene;  An illustration of two photographs. 5. That the daemons whom they worship as gods actually die, XVIII. 1. Other writers of history record the victories of war and trophies won from enemies, the skill of generals, and the manly bravery of soldiers, defiled with blood and with innumerable slaughters for the sake of children and country and other possessions. Not alone shalt thou suffer; full many the towers he will level,  Then the others were divided, [In Greek, διεκρίνοντο. My spacious house  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. 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. Whereas on the contrary those gods, if indeed there were any who really cared for things on earth, ought to have utterly put aside His deception, if any there were, and themselves to bestow their own remedies and benefits abundantly on all. To fellow citizens and strangers give,  For they cast to the dogs those who had died of suffocation in the prison, carefully guarding them by night and day, lest any one should be buried by us. 'They also give orders that their interpreters must be abstainers from animal food, that they may not be tainted with the vapours from the carcases, though they are themselves mightily allured by the vapours from the sacrifices; also that the initiate must not touch a dead body, though it is by means of dead animals that the gods are for the most part brought down. 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. 8. Which of these forgives the sins of the other? None gives thee honour; but thy Labda soon  16. And they were astonished at her endurance, as her entire body was mangled and broken; and they testified that one of these forms of torture was sufficient to destroy life, not to speak of so many and so great sufferings. But with regard to the fact that the evil daemons no longer have any power to prevail since our Saviour's advent among men, the very same author who is the advocate of the daemons in our time, in his compilation against us, bears witness by speaking in the following manner: [PORPHYRY] 'And now they wonder that for so many years the plague has attacked the city, Asclepius and the other gods being no longer resident among us. This record of the affection of those blessed ones toward the brethren that had fallen may be profitably added on account of the inhuman and unmerciful disposition of those who, after these events, acted unsparingly toward the members of Christ. 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. Pantænus was one of these, and is said to have gone to India. But by our own people, as friends of the truth, the occurrence is related in a simple and artless manner. 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. voices, is now completely forsaken by them, just as streams run dry, and a great drought of inspiration has overspread the land. So far then let these quotations suffice from this work of Porphyry. Cruse (1842) Church History of Eusebius (Historia Ecclesiastica), by Philip Schaff et al. And then wast thou to save the men, and he to burn the buildings with foreign fire? Doubts my prophetic soul, yet hope prevails  'To me at all events thou didst not appear to be out of order in avenging the poet; for I remembered the other poet also, and the sacred crowns of Euripides; though indeed I was in doubt, and desirous of hearing, not that he had been crowned, but how these crowns were "sacred"; nor that his fame sprang up, but in what way it was "noble" fame. Paul speaks of this Linus in his Epistles to Timothy. 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. These, being ensnared by Satan, and fearing for themselves the tortures which they beheld the saints endure, and being also urged on by the soldiers, accused us falsely of Thyestean banquets and Œdipodean intercourse, and of deeds which are not only unlawful for us to speak of or to think, but which we cannot believe were ever done by men. If any one of us, in letter or conversation, spoke of them as witnesses, they rebuked him sharply. But so far do they come short of raising the dead, as the Lord raised them, and the apostles through prayer. For what benefit to human life can there be from these evil arts of sorcery? For Florinus seemed to be defending this opinion. 'So then tyrants also are happy, and not only those who conspire against tyrants: "Cypselus, who shall work full many misfortunes to Corinth,". 188 b 1 Plutarch, On the Cessation of Oracles, c. xxi. 63. Having related these things at the outset, and continued the refutation of their delusion through his entire work, in the second book he speaks as follows of their end: 12. '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  p. 421 B, 11. 12. It is reported that Marcus Aurelius Cæsar, brother of Antoninus, being about to engage in battle with the Germans and Sarmatians, was in great trouble on account of his army suffering from thirst. Thou know'st the secret spell, which mortal man  How falsely therefore they speak who call Prisca a virgin. The blessed apostles having founded and established the church, entrusted the office of the episcopate to Linus. For plaiting a crown of various colors and of all kinds of flowers, they presented it to the Father. But she recovered herself under the suffering, and as if awaking from a deep sleep, and reminded by the present anguish of the eternal punishment in hell, she contradicted the blasphemers. The lot shall choose, whom to the infernal gods  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. 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. ", 'Now who will interpret for me what in the world is meant by these "grass-eating geese unutterably great"? He showed this by the fullness of his love, being well pleased even to lay down his life in defense of the brethren. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Volume I: Books 1-5 LCL 153: Find in a Library; View cloth edition; Print; Email ; Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 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. For those who had recanted at their first arrest were imprisoned with the others, and endured terrible sufferings, so that their denial was of no profit to them even for the present. Now let us see if they will rise again, and if their God is able to help them, and to deliver them out of our hands.'. But even this he failed to do, nay, he did not even know how the circumstances of their defeat would turn out. 216 b 5 Herodotus, vii. 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. For the first went out rejoicing, glory and grace being blended in their faces, so that even their bonds seemed like beautiful ornaments, as those of a bride adorned with variegated golden fringes; and they were perfumed with the sweet savor of Christ, so that some supposed they had been anointed with earthly ointment. ", "Life hath a twofold destiny for thee;  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. For this is what the poet at Delphi says. 191 d 6 Porphyry, Epistle to Anebo, § 28 (Parthey), 14. 5. 'Then, on my inquiring further whether the gods were inclined to help me, some one of the multitude, swearing by the very gods that were to help, said that he certainly had heard that this very answer had been given from thee to one Callistratus, a merchant of Pontus. 'For Cyrus, the semi-Mede or semi-Persian, or, as he was called in the riddle, "the mule," being of a royal race by his mother, but of an ordinary stock on his father's side, shows incidentally the inflated poetry, but especially the blind divination of the soothsayer, if he did not know that the riddle would be misunderstood. 16. '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. Eusebius also published the evidence for some of the dates in the tables, mostly in the form of excerpts from earlier writers. And, after the scourging, after the wild beasts, after the roasting seat, she was finally enclosed in a net, and thrown before a bull. Leider ist dieses Format sehr unhandlich und für den Nachdruck schwer geeignet. ", "Hear the unwilling voice thy power constrains."'. Was it because at the Olympic games he struck his antagonist a single blow and laid open his side, and thrust in his hand and seized his lung? 214 a 10 Hesiod, Works and Days, vv. Of these, Syneros is the leader and chief, as those who defend his teaching say. "Three times ten thousand on the fruitful earth,", not immortals, but rulers of mankind of wood and stone: and if they, "Man's insolence or just behaviour scanned,"  42. there never would have been raised a crop of nonsense so great, that at length the evil has reached even to you gods, having passed over to Olympus, where, as they say, "The abode of the gods is for ever secure.". 7. For if it must so happen, why nevertheless dost thou, unhappy god, sit at Delphi chanting empty and useless prophecies? It is proper to add other selections from the same letter, in which the moderation and compassion of these witnesses is recorded in the following words: 2. The mares of Thrace, or Sparta's beauteous dames,  But already it has been proved above that, until after the teaching of the Gospel, the human sacrifices which were formerly so cruelly and ruthlessly perpetrated among all the heathen have never admitted any cessation of evils: and on the present occasion it is a good thing to add to this that not only the superstitious worship of daemons but also the multitude of ruling powers among the heathen became from that time extinct. "', '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.'. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus (c. 326) translated by C.F. 3. But this Apelles wrote many things, in an impious manner, of the law of Moses, blaspheming the divine words in many of his works, being, as it seemed, very zealous for their refutation and overthrow. For these reasons again the author before mentioned scoffs at the soothsaying god as follows: '"IMMORTAL and renowned in song thy son,  11. But wishing to try them individually, as he feared lest, by taking counsel together, they might conceal the truth of the Scriptures by their interpretation, he separated them from one another, and commanded all of them to write the same translation. Hold in her hand a blazing torch,  That the daemons whom men have supposed to be gods taught them their own curious arts, XII. So far Oenomaus. That charms the gentle wood-nymph's soul. For before the Romans had established their empire, while the Macedonians were still holding Asia, Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, being desirous of adorning the library which he had founded in Alexandria with the meritorious writings of all men, requested the people of Jerusalem to have their Scriptures translated into the Greek language. 121 (224), 7. "', If then 'flutes, and the rattle of drums, and a throng of women' are the care of the Mother of the gods, we ought surely to practise these things to the neglect of every virtue, because the aforesaid goddess has no care for 3. 315, epilogue ca. Having always loved peace, and having commended peace to us they went in peace to God, leaving no sorrow to their mother, nor division or strife to the brethren, but joy and peace and concord and love. And his own parish, from which he came, did not receive him, because he was a robber. Great Juno sends the soft rain's welcome sound;  No longer can the present god endure. But this is sufficient to prove that they suffer compulsion; and that they also request to be set free, as if it were not in their own power to withdraw, you may learn from what follows. And he says also that Zoticus, who was mentioned by the former writer, when Maximilla was pretending to prophesy in Pepuza, resisted her and endeavored to refute the spirit that was working in her; but was prevented by those who agreed with her. This site being a Free site it is important that you Please Share. 2. For while we all trembled, and her earthly mistress, who was herself also one of the witnesses, feared that on account of the weakness of her body, she would be unable to make bold confession, Blandina was filled with such power as to be delivered and raised above those who were torturing her by turns from morning till evening in every manner, so that they acknowledged that they were conquered, and could do nothing more to her. '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. For all of them had rendered the same things in the same words and with the same names from beginning to end, so that the heathen perceived that the Scriptures had been translated by the inspiration of God. 5. 'But the word "strait" was ambiguous, and chosen in order that, if he were victorious, thou mightest seem to be the cause of his victory; but, if defeated, not at all to blame for his defeat, being able to take refuge in "the broad-bosomed." The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus, Bishop of Caesarea, in Palestine, in Ten Books (1842) by Eusebius of Caesarea, translated by C. F. Cruse. But we have given the names of those alone, the soundness of whose faith has come down to us in writing. If your own flesh and blood, female and male,  Rhodo himself promises to give in a work of his own solutions of Tatian's problems. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Whose horned brows and cloven feet  There were others in the East, one of them an Assyrian, the other a Hebrew in Palestine. 3. For thou knewest not, O sophist, as in the case of Attica, what course the affairs of Sparta would take. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. For they did not receive such Scriptures from their instructors, nor can they produce any copies from which they were transcribed. 'But again the stupid people supposed that they must recall the men who were in banishment: but they were mistaken; for as The keys of silence on the oracle. and impure matter, and delight in bloodshed and gore and the bodies of animals of all kinds, and in the exhalation from the fumes of incense and of vapours rising out of the earth. That they showed the proper forms of their own statues, XIV. And Polycarp in Smyrna, who was a bishop and martyr; and Thraseas, bishop and martyr from Eumenia, who fell asleep in Smyrna. For indeed there were still many evangelists of the Word who sought earnestly to use their inspired zeal, after the examples of the apostles, for the increase and building up of the Divine Word. 221 d 8 Compare the version of the oracle in Pausanias, iv. BOOK I. Afterwards, having falsely declared for the name of the Lord, he was released, having deceived the faithful that were there. So also, as general report says, that remarkable person, the first steward, as it were, of their so-called prophecy, one Theodotus — who, as if at sometime taken up and received into heaven, fell into trances, and entrusted himself to the deceitful spirit — was pitched like a quoit, and died miserably. ', 'It seems to me to be no unreasonable postulate that those who preside over the oracles are not gods, who ought rightly to be kept clear from matters pertaining to earth, but daemons in the service of gods. 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).] Hereby the philosopher before mentioned clearly proved that the sacrifices described above were offered in honour of evil daemons in all the cities. These are not my ideas, do not suppose it, but what you have heard from the writer before mentioned; from whom again the following is taken: 'But what utterly perplexes me is, how, being invoked as superiors, they receive orders as inferiors; and while requiring their worshipper to be just, they 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.'. For they were examined by themselves, as about to be set free; but confessing, they were added to the order of the witnesses. [OENOMAUS] (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890.) The Athenians were all suffering from a pestilence for one man's death, and thought to receive the help of the gods. That they themselves taught men how to array their images for magical rites, XIII. But this did not please all the bishops. A long-drawn hymn thou canst not understand.". These are the matters recorded by Apollonius. Does the prophet the robberies of the martyr, or the martyr the covetousness of the prophet? bring pestilences upon cities and barrenness of the soil, and stir up wars and seditions, until they succeed in obtaining the object of their desire.' ", "A stream of heavenly light from Phoebus flowing,  Thus nature dares thy birth divine,  For letters are carried from us to them and from them to us, so that in the same manner and at the same time we keep the sacred day. He came, the mighty god, and met me there. 'THEY therefore do better who think that the incidents recorded concerning Typhon and Osiris and Isis refer to sufferings neither of gods nor of men, but of certain mighty daemons, whom Plato and Pythagoras and Xenocrates and Chrysippus, following the ancient theologians, state to have been stronger than men, and far superior in power to our nature; having, however, their divine element not unmixed nor unalloyed, but sharing both in At one time he says that some of these good daemons are the slaves of amorous pleasures, and then that others delight in drums and flutes, and women's clatter; and that others again take pleasure in wars and battles, and Artemis in hunting, and Deo in the fruits of the ground; that Isis is still mourning for Osiris, and Apollo uttering oracles. 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. 1. But the people being enraged because those who formerly denied now confessed, cried out against Alexander as if he were the cause of this. So they, not knowing who he was, invoked him as the helper of their forefathers. When those called to martyrdom from the Church for the truth of the faith have met with any of the so-called martyrs of the Phrygian heresy, they have separated from them, and died without any fellowship with them, because they did not wish to give their assent to the spirit of Montanus and the women. Does a prophet lend on usury? haste thee away, nor blush to behave like a coward. The people hold Messenian soil, so now  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. By these quotations I think it has been clearly shown that there is nothing at all worthy of deity, nothing either great or truly divine in these spirits who have fallen to such a depth of degradation as to be drawn and dragged down by any common men, not by reason of any attainment in virtue and wisdom, but merely by their pursuing and practising the arts of magical imposture. 6. And for this no long voyage is needed, nor a journey from Peloponnesus to Delphi, or even to the very Hyperboreans, whence, as they say, in accordance with the response of another prophetess, Asteria, "Founders and priests of fragrant Delos came.". there you have the oracle that was given to the Athenians. 'Tis late; yet give the old plough a new tip. These doctrines, the presbyters who were before us, and who were companions of the apostles, did not deliver to you. 184 a 1 Plutarch, On the Cessation of Oracles, c. x. p. 414, 5. It runs as follows: For a certain Alcibiades, who was one of them, led a very austere life, partaking of nothing whatever but bread and water. But they perhaps, though disciplined by the laws of Lycurgus, had come to inquire from insatiate desire and vainglory, that they might not seem to be inferior in battle to Messenians, though reputed to have been bred up in habits of endurance. We show you indeed that also in Alexandria they keep it on the same day that we do. In the tenth year of the reign of Commodus, Victor succeeded Eleutherus, the latter having held the episcopate for thirteen years. Eusebius of Caesarea. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Erewhile ten thousand oracles divine 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. The same writer also alleges what follows: 'The symbols of Hecate are wax of three colours, white and black and red combined, having a figure of Hecate bearing a scourge, and torch, and sword, with a serpent to be coiled round her; and the symbols of Uranus are the mariners' stars nailed up before the doors. 2. A full account, containing the most reliable information on the subject, is given in our Collection of Martyrdoms, which constitutes a narrative instructive as well as historical. But the blessed Blandina, last of all, having, as a noble mother, encouraged her children and sent them before her victorious to the King, endured herself all their conflicts and hastened after them, glad and rejoicing in her departure as if called to a marriage supper, rather than cast to wild beasts. Either your glorious city shall be sacked  'For why need we speak of the others, when Boeotia, which in former times, as far as oracles were concerned, spake with many "What must I do? 'Tell us then about manliness, tell us about freedom, tell us about concord, in what way they are engendered in a state, and bid not us, who are ignorant, to lead the peoples in this path, but lead us thyself. Such is the fruit of arrogance and folly.'. The Rhone passes through both of them, flowing in a broad stream through the entire region. It is not possible to recount the number of gifts which the Church, throughout all the world, has received from God in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and exercises every day for the benefit of the heathen, never deceiving any nor doing it for money. Of Phoebus, let my tongue speak reverent words. And my relatives always observed the day when the people put away the leaven. 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