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218 Credibility of ihe Gospel History.
' and suffered at Caesarea in Palestine in the persecution of
' Maximin.'
So writes Jerom in his Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers.
I have placed this at the beginning as a summary of the
life of this excellent person: 1 shall add more from him, as
well as from other ancient writers, presently.
Pamphilus flourished, according to Cave, about the year
294; he was put into prison in the year 307, and accomplished
his martyrdom'^ in 309. Eusebius, speaking of
Pamphilus, and some others, says they suffered after they
had been imprisoned*^ two whole years; but it is supposed
by learned moderns that^ Pamphilus lay in prison only a
year and some months, from the latter end of the year 307
to the 16th of February, 309.
'^
In the Acts of Pamphilus, in Simeon Metaphrastes, which
Valesius supposed to be taken from Eusebius, and Tillemont^
allows to be in the main right, it is said that'' Pamphilus
was a native of Berytus, and there received the first
rudiments of learning : and
been educated by' Pierius.
in Photius he is said to have
For my own part, I think that
neither of these accounts is to be relied upon: but, admitting
the truth of them, it must be supposed, 1 think, that Pamphilus
having first made some progress in learning at Berytus,
his native city, afterwards completed his studies at Alexandria,
and then settled at Csesarea, where he certainly resided
a great part of his life.
From this person Eusebius received "^ the surname of
Pamphilus, or Pamphili. In the chapter before cited Jerom
calls Pamphilus Eusebius's friend; he mentions this again
in' the chapter of Eusebius himself: and in another place
he says that these two persons seemed to have but one
soul.