Eusebius Quotes

• It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

  Eusebius

  Lying, Mean, Church

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• Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!

  Eusebius

  Father, Writing, Doctors

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• I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.

  Eusebius

  Teaching, Writing, Soul

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• The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.

  Eusebius

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Strange

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• It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

  Eusebius

  Scary, Needs, Use

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• [Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.

  Eusebius

  Passion, Character, Men

  Eusebius (2007). “Eusebius: The Church History”, p.22, Kregel Academic

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• But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

  Eusebius

  Kings, Father, Taken

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• Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

  Eusebius

  Christian, Men, Law

  "The Proof of the Gospel: Being the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Cæsarea".

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• Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

  Eusebius

  Drawing, Punishment, Miracle

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• On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

  Eusebius

  Religious, Scary, Alive

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• Make disciples of all the nations in my Name.

  Eusebius

  Names, Disciple, Nations

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• Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. 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. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.

  Eusebius

  School, Writing, Doctrine

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• Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.

  Eusebius

  Country, Children, War

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• But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

  Eusebius

  War, Men, Cities

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• While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

  Eusebius

  Queens, Saving, Messages

  Eusebius (2012). “Eusebius: The Church History”, p.54, Kregel Academic

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