{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010298.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010298.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010298.htm","text":"p. 369 Book X.\nChapter I.\u2014The Peace granted us by God.\n1. Thanks for all things be given unto God the Omnipotent Ruler and King of the universe, and the greatest thanks to Jesus Christ the Saviour and Redeemer of our souls, through whom we pray that peace may be always preserved for us firm and undisturbed by external troubles and by troubles of the mind.\n2. Since in accordance with thy wishes, my most holy Paulinus, 2799 we have added the tenth book of the Church History to those which have preceded, 2800 we will inscribe it to thee, proclaiming thee as the seal of the whole work; and we will fitly add in a perfect number the perfect panegyric upon the restoration of the churches, 2801 obeying the Divine Spirit which exhorts us in the following words:\n3. \u201cSing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm hath saved him. The Lord hath made known his salvation, his righteousness hath he revealed in the presence of the nations.\u201d 2802\n4. And in accordance with the utterance which commands us to sing the new song, let us proceed to show that, after those terrible and gloomy spectacles which we have described, 2803 we are now permitted to see and celebrate such things as many truly righteous men and martyrs of God before us desired to see upon earth and did not see, and to hear and did not hear. 2804\n5. But they, hastening on, obtained far better things, 2805 being carried to heaven and the paradise of divine pleasure. But, acknowledging that even these things are greater than we deserve, we have been astonished at the grace manifested by the author of the great gifts, and rightly do we admire him, worshiping him with the whole power of our souls, and testifying to the truth of those recorded utterances, in which it is said, \u201cCome and see the works of the Lord, the wonders which he hath done upon the earth; he removeth wars to the ends of the world, he shall break the bow and snap the spear in sunder, and shall burn the shields with fire.\u201d 2806\n6. Rejoicing in these things which have been clearly fulfilled in our day, let us proceed with our account.\n7. The whole race of God\u2019s enemies was destroyed in the manner indicated, 2807 and was thus suddenly swept from the sight of men. So that again a divine utterance had its fulfillment: \u201cI have seen the impious highly exalted and raising himself like the cedars of Lebanon and I have passed by, and behold, he was not and I have sought his place, and it could not be found.\u201d 2808\n8. And finally a bright and splendid day, overshadowed by no cloud, illuminated with beams of heavenly light the churches of Christ throughout the entire world. And not even those without our communion 2809 were prevented from sharing in the same blessings, or at least from coming under their influp. 370 ence and enjoying a part of the benefits bestowed upon us by God. 2810\nPaulinus, bishop of Tyre, became afterward bishop of Antioch, as we are told by Eusebius, Contra Marcellum, I. 4, and by Philostorgius, H. E. III. 15. According to Jerome\u2019s Chron, year of Abr. 2345, he was the successor of Philogonius and the predecessor of Eustathius in the episcopate of Antioch. He was still alive when Eusebius completed his History, that is, at least as late as 323 (see above, p. 45), but he was already dead when the Council of Nic\u00e6a met; for Eustathius was at that time bishop of Antioch (see e.g. Sozomen, H. E. I. 17, Theodoret, H. E. I. 7, and the Acts of the Council of Nic\u00e6a, ed. Labbei et Cossartii, I. p. 51), and Zeno, bishop of Tyre (see the Acts of the Nicene Council, ibid.). Philostorgius (ibid.) informs us that he became bishop of Antioch but six months before his death, and there is no reason to doubt the statement. Eusebius speaks of him in the highest terms, both here and in his Contra Marcellum, and it was at the dedication of his church in Tyre that he delivered the panegyric oration quoted in chap. 4, below. He is claimed as a sympathizer by Arius in his epistle to Eusebius of Nicomedia (Theodoret, H. E. I. 5), and that he accepted Arius\u2019 tenets is implied by Eusebius of Nicomedia, who, however, feels obliged to admonish him for not showing greater zeal in the support of the cause (see this epistle quoted by Theodoret, H. E. I. 6). This is the extent of our information in regard to him.\n369:2800\nOn the date of the composition of the tenth book of the History, and its relation to the earlier books, see above, p. 45.\n369:2801\n\u03b5\u1f30\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b4\u1fbd \u1f10\u03bd \u1f00\u03c1\u03b9\u03b8\u03bc\u1ff7 \u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03af& 251\u00b7 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u1fe6\u03b8\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03b7\u03b3\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u1f78\u03bd \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03ce\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u20ac\u03be\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd. The meaning of this sentence is very obscure. Valesius translates: Nec absurde ut opinor, absolutam omnibus numeris orationem panegyricam de ecclesiarum instauratione hic in perfecto numero collocabimus. Stroth, followed by Closs, renders: \u201cMit Recht werden wir hier auch eine vollst\u00e4ndige feierliche Rede, von der Wiedererneuerung der Kirchen, als einen ordentlichen Theil miteinr\u00fccken.\u201d Crus\u00e8 reads: \u201cJustly, indeed, shall we here subjoin in a perfect number a complete discourse and panegyric on the renovation of the churches.\u201d The \u201cperfect number\u201d seems to refer to the number of the book (the number ten being commonly so called in ancient times), to which he has referred in the previous clause. Could we regard the \u201cperfect panegyric\u201d as referring to the book as a whole, as Crus\u00e8 does, the sentence would be somewhat clearer; but the phrase seems to be a plain reference to the oration given in chap. 4, especially since Eusebius does not say \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2, but \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u1f76& 242\u00b7\u03bd, as in the title of that oration. I have preserved the play of words, \u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03af& 251\u00b7\u2014\u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, in order to bring out Eusebius\u2019 thought more clearly, but it must be remarked that the word \u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd does not imply praise of the quality of his oration on the author\u2019s part. It is used rather in the sense of complete or final, because it celebrates a completed work, as the tenth book completes his History, and thus crowns the whole.\n369:2802 369:2803\nLiterally, \u201cspectacles and narratives\u201d (\u1f44\u03c8\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2).\n369:2804\nCf. Matt. xiii. 17.\n369:2805\nCf. Phil. i. 23\n369:2806 369:2807\nSee chaps. 10 and 11 of the preceding book.\n369:2808 369:2809\n\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u017e\u03be\u03c9\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u1fbd \u1f21\u03bc\u1fb6\u03c2 \u03b8\u03b9\u20ac\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5.\n370:2810\nBy the edict of Constantine and Licinius full religious liberty was granted, not only to the Christians, but to all men of whatever creed or cult.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Churc...","type":"page"}