Eusebius -“ The Father of Church History”?
Was Eusebius perhaps concerned about preserving his social status?
Eusebius had an additional purpose - that of an apologist.
According to Eusebius, her conversion to Christianity followed her son becoming emperor.
Who was Eusebius, and what lesson can we learn from his life?
As a result of this accomplishment, Eusebius became known as the father of church history.
In his Ecclesiastical History( Book III, chapter V,
3), Eusebius says that they fled from Jerusalem and Judea.
Eusebius calculates that 300,000 residents from the province of Judea
traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover of 70 C. E.
Although he believed that the Father existed before the Son, Eusebius accepted a different view at the council in Nicaea.
It is only through Eusebius' writings that many prominent individuals of the first
three centuries of the Common Era have been revealed.
Fourth- century historian Eusebius reports that when they were being led to their death,
Origen,“ with great boldness, saluted them with a kiss.”.
And Eusebius, who wrote a history of the church from the birth of Jesus to A.D. 324,
one year before the Council of Nicea.
Alluding to Colossians 1:
15 and John 1: 1, Eusebius argued that the Logos, or the
Word, is“ the image of the invisible God” - God's Son.
Constantine never became a Christian,” states the encyclopedia Hidria,
adding:“ Eusebius of Caesarea, who wrote his biography, says that he became a Christian in the last moments of his life.
Eusebius, a Roman historian and a scholar of the biblical canon, quoted early apocryphal
accounts and stated that Pilate suffered a misfortune in the reign of Caligula(A.D. 37- 41), was exiled to Gaul, and eventually committed suicide there in Vienne.
For instance, the historian Eusebius wrote:“ Pilate himself,
the governor of our Saviour's day, was involved in such calamities that he was forced to become his own executioner and to punish himself with his own hand: divine justice, it seems, was not slow to overtake him.”.