AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.—Christian History.

Ancient Ecclesiastical Historians.

☛These writers will be found in our alphabetical list of Church Fathers, but they are gathered here on one page for convenient reference.

Eusebius.

The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares After Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius.

Eusebius Pamphilus bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote 10 bookes.

Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7 bookes.

Evagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6 bookes.

Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives of the Prophetes, Apostles and 70 Disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hammer, Maister of Arte and student in divinitie. Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate. 1577.

An Ecclesiastical History to the twentieth year of the reign of Constantine, being the 324th of the Christian era. By Eusebius, surnamed Pamphilus, Bishop of Caesarea. Translated by the Rev. C. F. Cruse, D.D. The fourth edition, carefully revised. To which is prefixed, the Life of Eusebius, by Valesius; translated by S. E. Parker, of Philadelphia. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1847.

The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus, Bishop of Caesarea, in Palestine. Translated from the Greek,  by the Rev. C. F. Cruse, A.M. London, 1865.

The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, in four books, from 306 to 337 a.d. By Eusebius Pamphilus. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1845.

History of the Martyrs in Palestine, of Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, discovered in a very ancient Syriac manuscript. Edited and translated into English by William Cureton. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1861.

NPNF: Volume I. Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine.

Evagrius Scholasticus.

The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares After Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius. —See fuller description under Eusebius above.

Ecclesiastical History. A history of the Church in six books, from a.d. 431 to a.d. 594. By Evagrius. A new translation from the Greek: with an account of the author and his writings.  London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1846.

Socrates Scholasticus.

A History of the Church in seven books, from the accession of Constantine in a.d. 306, to the 36th year of Theodosius, Jun., a.d. 445, including a period of 140 years. By Socrates, surnamed Scholasticus, or the Advocate. Translated from the Greek: with some account of the life and writings of the author. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1844.

The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, surnamed Scholasticus, or the Advocate, comprising a history of the Church, in seven books, from the accession of Constantine, A. D. 305, to the 38th year of Theodosius II, including a period of 140 years. Translated from the Greek. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874.

The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares After Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius.—See fuller description under Eusebius above.

NPNF: Volume II. Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425.

Sozomen.

The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen; also, the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius, as eptomized by Photius. Translated by Edward Walford, M.A.

A History of the Church in Nine Books, from a.d. 324 to a.d. 440. By Sozomen. A new translation from the Greek: with a memoir of the author. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1846.

Volume II. Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425.

Theodoret.

Beati Theodoreti Episcopi Cyrensis, Theologi vetustissimi Opera Omnia quae ad hunc diem Latine versa sparsim extiterunt. Cum indice verborum rerumque memorabilium locupletissimo, sub calcem operum addito. Parisiis, Apud Michaelem Sonnium, via Iacobaea, sub scuto Basiliensi. 1608.

Tomus I.

Tomus II.

A History of the Church in five books, from a.d. 322 to the death of Theodore of Mopsuestia, a.d. 427. By Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus. A new translation from the original, with a memoir of the author, an account of his writings, and a chronology of the events recorded, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1843.

The Fathers, Historians, and Writers of the Church. Literally Translated. Being Extracts from the Works of Sulpicius Severus, Eusebius, Acts of the Apostles, Socrates, Theodoret, Sozomen, Minutius Felix, St. Cyprian, Lactantius, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, Tertullian, St. Eucherius, Salivan, St. Bernard, St. Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nyssa. Dublin, 1864.
Another copy.

NPNF: Volume III. Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome.