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Arius, a7ul his Followers. EusEuius. 593
' much read by those who have occasion to speak in public.
' The chief of his works are these : Against the Jews, and
' Against the Gentiles, Against tlie Novatians, ten books upon
' the epistle to the Galatians, and many short homilies upon
' the gospels. He flourished in the reign of the emperor
' Constantius, in whose time also he died. He was buried at
' Antioch.'
Eusebius flourished about the year 340, and died about
the year 360, as Cave thinks. Fabricius roundly placeth
his death" in 360, Tillemont^ before 359.
Socrates" and Sozomen'^ had before them the life of this
bishop, written by his friend George of Laodicea. From
whom we learn, that^ JEusebius was descended of a very
honourable family, and born at Edessa in Mesopotamia.
He was early instructed in the sacred scriptures, and then
in secular learning, by a master at Edessa. He afterwards
came into Palestine, that he might farther perfect himself
in sacred learning: where he studied under Patrophilus
of Scythopolis, and Eusebius of Caesarea, He likewise
went to Antioch, and from thence to Alexandria, where
he studied philosophy, and then returned to Antioch.
Some time after that he was ordained bishop of E mesa in
Phoenicia, but'' the people could not endure him, having a notion,
that he practised magical arts. Such is the reward which
some men meet with for diligent application to letters ! And
upon another occasion, as Sozomen relates, good'* and great
as he was, he experienced the envy of those, who are offended
at other men's virtues. However, the emperor*^ Constantius
was greatly pleased with him, and always carried him with
him in his wars against the Persians.
His*^ piety, as well as his learning and elo(juence, appears
to have been at that time very conspicuous.
Theodoret sjiys, that'' his writings showed him to be an
" Bib. Gr. T. vi. p. IGO. T. viii. p. 366, * Les Ariens, art. 31.
" Socr. 1. ii. c. 9. " Soz. 1. iii. c. G.
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