Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume I

by Eusebius; Philip Schaff; Henry Wace

Publisher:

Christian Literature Company

, 1890

Overview

This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes Eusebius’ Church History, The Martyrs of Palestine, The Life of the Blessed Emperor Augustine, and more.

Product Details

• Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume I
• Author: Phillip Schaff
• Publisher: Christian Literature Company
• Publication Date: 1888

Contents

Top Highlights

“According to Harnack the chief points in the system of Lucian and his disciples were the creation of the Son, the denial of his co-eternity with the Father, and his immutability acquired by persistent progress and steadfastness.” (Page 11)

“But when the magistrate pressed him, and said, ‘Swear, and I will release thee; revile Christ,’ Polycarp said, ‘Fourscore and six years⁵ have I been serving him, and he hath done me no wrong; how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me?’” (Page 190)

“For the faithful in Asia met often in many places throughout Asia to consider this matter,¹ and examined the novel utterances and pronounced them profane, and rejected the heresy, and thus these persons were expelled from the Church and debarred from communion.’” (Page 232)

“Nepos, a bishop in Egypt, who taught that the promises to the holy men in the Divine Scriptures should be understood in a more Jewish manner, and that there would be a certain millennium of bodily luxury upon this earth.” (Page 308)

“The ancients quite properly called these men Ebionites, because they held poor and mean opinions concerning Christ.^{1” (Page 159)}

Product Details

• Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.1: Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine
• Authors: Eusebius, Philip Schaff, Henry Wace
• Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: Christian Literature Company
• Print Publication Date: 1890
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Era: era:nicene
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
• Resource ID: LLS:6.60.15
• Resource Type: text.monograph.collected-work
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:49:27Z