Eusebius, Early Christianity’s Historian
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“Essentially, Eusebius gathered up the entire first three centuries of the faith and packaged them in his History, a book that still affords stimulating reading.” - Imaginative Conservative
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Essentially, Eusebius gathered up the entire first three centuries of the faith and packaged them in his History, a book that still affords stimulating reading.” - Imaginative Conservative
Eusebius wrote his church history sometime in the early 4th century. Towards the beginning of his work, there is an excerpt from some curious correspondence which purports to be between Jesus and the King of Edessa, a city in present-day southeastern Turkey.1 It’s unknown whether this correspondence is authentic, but Eusebius claimed to have translated the text from Syriac himself. Even if it isn’t original, it’s a curious piece of work captured in the earliest history of the Christian church ever written outside the Holy Scriptures:
“Eusebius and the experience of many early Christians illustrates the fact this world is not our home; everything we see here will ultimately burn.” The Christian Life Is No Picnic
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