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Little is known about Eusebius life. Eusebius' successor in the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost. Eusebius' own surviving works probably only represent a small portion of his total output. Since he was on the losing side of the long fourth-century contest between the allies and enemies of Arianism (Eusebius was an early and vocal supporter of Arius), posterity did not have much respect for Eusebius' person.[1] Beyond notices in his extant writings, the major sources are the fifth-century ecclesiastical historians Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret, and the fourth-century Christian author Jerome. There are assorted notices of his activities in the writings of his contemporaries Athanasius, Arius, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Alexander of Alexandria. His pupil, Eusebius of Emesa, also provides some incidental information.[2]

Early life edit

In his Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius speaks of Dionysius of Alexandria as his contemporary. If this is true, Eusebius' birth must have been before Dionysius' death in autumn 264; most modern scholars date the birth to some point in the five years between 260 and 265.[3] He was presumably born in the town which he lived most of his adult life, Caesarea Maritima.[4] He was baptized and instructed in the city,[5] and was resident in Palestine when the army of the East under Diocletian traveled through the region in 296.[6] Eusebius was made presbyter by Agapius of Caesarea.[7] Some, like theologian and ecclesiastical historian John Henry Newman, understand Eusebius' statement that he had heard Dorotheus of Tyre "expound the Scriptures wisely in the Church" to indicate that Eusebius was Dorotheus' pupil while the priest was resident in Antioch; others, like the scholar D. S. Wallace-Hadrill, deem the phrase too ambiguous to support the contention.[8]

By the third century, Caesarea had a population of about 100,000. It had been a pagan city since Pompey had given control of the city to the gentiles during his command of the eastern provinces (60s BC). The gentiles retained control of the city in the three centuries since that date, despite Jewish petitions for joint governorship. Gentile government was strengthened by the city's refoundation under Herod the Great (r. 37–4 BC), when it had taken on the name of Augustus Caesar.[9] In addition to the gentile settlers, Caesarea had large Jewish and Samaritan minorities. Eusebius was probably born into the Christian contingent of the city. Caesarea's Christian community presumably had a history reaching back to apostolic times,[10] but no bishops are attested for the town before about AD 190.[11]

Through the activities of the theologian Origen (185/6–254) and the school of his follower Pamphilus (later third century – 309), Caesarea became a center of Christian learning. On his deathbed, Origen had made a bequest of his private library to the Christian community in the city.[12] Together with the books of his patron Ambrosius, Origen's library (including the original manuscripts of his works[13][notes 1]) formed the core of the collection that Pamphilus established.[15] Pamphilus also managed a school that was similar to (or perhaps a re-establishment of[16]) that of Origen.[17] For his industry, Pamphilus was compared to Demetrius of Phalerum and Pisistratus: he had gathered Bibles from all corners of the world.[18] Like his model Origen, Pamphilus maintained close contact with his students. Eusebius, in his history of the persecutions, alludes to the fact that many of the Caesarean martyrs lived together, presumably under Pamphilus.[19]

Soon after Pamphilus settled in Caesarea (ca. 280s), he began teaching Eusebius, who was then somewhere between twenty and twenty-five.[20] Because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, Eusebius was sometimes called Eusebius Pamphili: "Eusebius, son of Pamphilus".[notes 2] The name may also indicate that Eusebius was made Pamphilus' heir.[24] Pamphilus gave Eusebius a strong admiration for the thought of Origen.[25] Neither Pamphilus nor Eusebius knew Origen personally;[26] Pamphilus probably picked up Origenist ideas during his studies under Pierius (nicknamed "Origen Junior"[27]) in Alexandria.[28] In Caesarea, Origenist thought was continued in the generation after his death by Theotecnus, bishop of the city for much of the late third century and an alumnus of Origen's school.[29]

Eusebius' Preparation for the Gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of Origen: Eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of Plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from Middle Platonists from Philo to the late second century.[30] Whatever its secular contents, the primary aim of Origen and Pamphilus' school was to promote sacred learning. The library's biblical and theological contents were more impressive: Origen's Hexapla and Tetrapla, a copy of (it was claimed) the original Aramaic version of the Gospel of Matthew, and much of Origen's own writings, of which Pamphilus attempted to make a complete account.[31] Marginal comments in extant manuscripts note that Pamphilus and his friends and pupils, including Eusebius, corrected and revised much of the biblical text in their library.[32] Their efforts made the hexaplaric Septuagint text increasingly popular in Syria and Palestine.[33] Soon after joining Pamphilus' school, Eusebius started helping his master expand the library's collections and broaden access to the its resources. At about this time Eusebius compiled a Collection of Ancient Martyrdoms, presumably for use as a general reference tool.[34]

Onomasticon edit

Eusebius' Onomasticon (more properly On the Place-Names in the Holy Scripture, the name Eusebius gives to it) is a work that moderns would recognize as a gazetteer, a directory of place names, but which ancients had no category for. It sits uneasily between the ancient genres of geography and lexicography, taking elements from both but a member of neither.[35] Eusebius' description of his own method—"I shall collect the entries from the whole of the divinely inspired Scriptures, and I shall set them out grouped by their initial letters so that one may easily perceive what lies scattered throughout the text"[36]—implies that he had no similar type of book to work from; his work was entirely original, based only on the text of the Bible.[37] As he describes, Eusebius organizes his entries into separate categories according to their first letters. Under each letter, the entries are organized first by the book they are found in, and then by their place in that book. The entries for Joshua under Tau, for example, read as follows:[38]

Tina (15:22): of the tribe of Judah.

Telem (15:24): of the tribe of Judah.
Tessam (15:29): of the tribe of Judah.

Tyre (19:35): of the tribe of Naphthali.

Where there is a contemporary town at the site or nearby, Eusebius notes it in the corresponding entry. "Terebinth", for example, describes Shechem as "near Neapolis", modern Nablus, and "Tophet" is located "in the suburbs of Jerusalem".[39] The Onomasticon has traditionally been dated before 324, on the basis of its sparse references to Christianity, and complete absence of remarks on Constantine's buildings in the Holy Land. The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.[40] A terminus post quem (point before which it cannot be dated) might be found in Eusebius' reference to the encampment of the Legio X Fretensis at Aila (in southern Israel, near modern Aqaba and Eilat): that legion was probably transfered from Jerusalem to Aila under Diocletian (r. 284–305).[41]

Commentaries on Isaiah and Psalms edit

Towards the end of his life, in about the 330s, Eusebius wrote a pair of biblical commentaries.[42] Since his major interest in biblical studies was Old Testament messianic prophecy,[43] he chose to write on Isaiah and Psalms[notes 3]—the two books that Christians have traditionally used to justify their messianic claims for Jesus Christ.[45]

Although Eusebius was a member of the school of Origen, absorbed much of his thought and practice, and was prepared to defend him against charges of heresy, their writings show significant differences in style and method. As they both made commentaries on Psalm 37 (38), their methods can be directly compared. Origen interprets the Psalm in an exposition tying it to a Christian's journey from conversion, to repentance, to absolution and redemption from sin, and progress in virtue. He thus annexes an Old Testament text to the body of Christian doctrine, treating it as if it were composed in full knowledge of essentially Christian theological concepts.[46] Eusebius, by contrast, interprets the text within its Old Testament context alone. He attributes the passage to King David, and draws out its practical moral by connecting the lines spoken in the text to the life of David. Thus verse two of the Psalm is an allusion to the rebellion of Absalom, and verse nineteen is an allusion to the threats of David's political enemies.[47] The message Eusebius reads in the Psalm—that God forgives and rewards the repentant sinner—is similar to Origen's, but the means by which both authors approach it are fundamentally different. Eusebius reads the Bible in a historical and quasi-historical fashion that Origen would have found, in the words of Eusebian scholar Timothy Barnes, "alien and unspiritual".[48]

There are also, however, clear signs of Origenist influence in Eusebius' commentaries. Eusebius makes extensive use of Origen's Hexapla, quoting and commenting on variant readings of the text from Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and, for the Psalms, from the anonymous fifth and sixth versions. At times (and although he had little real knowledge of Hebrew), where a reading appears in the Septuagint but not the Hebrew text, he marks it as potentially spurious. For example, where the Septuagint version of Psalm 61:5 (62:4) has "they ran in thirst", Eusebius marks it down as an obelism, or textual corruption, of the "in flasehood" that is present in all other versions of the passage.[49] Eusebius also takes the Origenist tack of distinguishing the literal from the spiritual sense of a passage. Thus "Israel" in Psalm 75:2 (76:1) is not the Davidic kingdom, but the man with spiritual insight who, in contemplation, sees God.[50]

Works on Constantine edit

Main articles: Life of Constantine, Panegyric to Constantine
See also: Speech to the Assembly of the Saints

After the emperor's death on 22 May 337, Eusebius wrote a work called the Life of Constantine (or On the Life according to God of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, the title prefixed to chapter headings in the manuscript). It was left unfinished on Eusebius' own death on 30 May 339.[51] The genre of the work has been contested; as it survives, it has been judged an unhappy combination of biography and panegyric, with similarities to saints' lives. The text went through multiple revisions under Eusebius himself, and final editorial revisions after his death by his episcopal successor Acacius.

Theology edit

"The three dominant characteristics of his thought are a continual emphasis on the Bible, an intellectual framework which derives from Origen, and celebration of the success of Christianity in the Roman world."[52]

List of works edit

The following table lists Eusebius' known works.[53]

Date English title Latin title Attestation
Before 300[54] Collection of Ancient Martyrdoms[55] Lost, except perhaps for a quotation by Lucian preserved in Rufinus' Ecclesiastical History[56]
Before 300 Chronicle (first ed.) Chronicon (first ed.) Partially extant in later revision translated into Armenian; substantially revised in Jerome's Chronicle
Before 300 Ecclesiastical History or History of the Church (first ed.) Historia Ecclesiastica (first ed.) Partially extant in later revision
Before 300,[57] before 331,[58] or 326;[59] after the Chronicle and Ecclesiastical History On the Place-Names in Holy Scripture Onomasticon[60] Only surviving book in a four-part work on biblical geography
Shortly after 303[61] Reply to Hierocles or Against Hierocles Contra Hieroclem Extant; disputed attribution[62]
After Reply to Hierocles[63] Against Porphyry Lost
308 or 309 Defence of Origen Written with Pamphilus in five books; Eusebius wrote a sixth alone after Pamphilus' death. Only the first book survives[64]
Summer or autumn 311 Martyrs of Palestine (long recension) De Martyribus Palestinae (long recension) Extant
Late 313? Ecclesiastical History (second ed.), including a revision of the Martyrs (short recension) and an account of Maximinus in 311–13 Historia Ecclesiastica (second ed.), including a revision of the De Martyribus (short recension) and an account of Maximinus in 311–13 Extant
Before ca. 313, when Eusebius was made bishop General Elementary Introduction or General Theological Introduction[65] Second part of the Introduction sometimes known by the title Eclogae Propheticae Only books 6–9 and some few additional fragments survive
ca. 314–ca. 318 Preparation for the Gospel Praeparatio Evangelica Extant
Probably immediately after the Preparation, but substantially before the Council of Nicaea (325)[66] Demonstration of the Gospel or Proof of the Gospel[67] Originally twenty books; only books 1–10 and a lengthy extract of 15 survive[68]
325 or 326 Ecclesiastical History (final ed.) Historia Ecclesiastica (final ed.) Extant
325 or 326 Chronicle (second ed.) Chronicon (second ed.) Partially extant in Armenian translation; substantially revised for Jerome's Chronicle
325/26? Divine Manifestation[69] Theophany Extant
ca. 330[70] or ca. 335[71] Commentary on Isaiah Partially extant
Delivered September 335 Treatise on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Delivered 25 July 336 Panegyric to Constantine
338 Against Marcellus Contra Marcellum Extant
338 Ecclesiastical Theology Extant
ca. 337–39 Life of Constantine Extant; unfinished at Eusebius' death and revised by Acacius
One the latest writings Commentary on the Psalms[72] Partially extant
Unknown Refutation and Defence. Lost, only known from Photius' epitome
Unknown Evangelical Canons Extant
Unknown Gospel Questions and Solutions or Questions Arising in the Gospel and their Solutions or On the Discrepancy Between the Gospels[73] Two parts: Gospel Questions and Solutions addressed to Stephanus and Gospel Questions and Solutions addressed to Marinus. Survives only in fragments and epitome[74]
Unknown The Polygamy and Large Families of the Patriarchs or Difficulties concerning the Polygamy of the Ancients[75] Lost
Unknown On Easter Partially extant
Unknown Life of Pamphilus, including a catalog of his library Lost[76]

Also.

  • Sermons and epistles.[77]
  • Letter to Euphrantion, bishop of Balaneae
  • Letter to the church of Caesarea on the Council of Nicaea
  • Letter to Constantia. Disputed authenticity[78]
  • On the Festival of Easter

Notes edit

  1. ^ Pamphilus might not have obtained all of Origen's writings, however: the library's text of Origen's commentary on Isaiah broke off at 30:6, while the original commentary was said to have taken up thirty volumes.[14]
  2. ^ There are two alternative interpretations of this term: (1) that Eusebius was the "spiritual son", or favored pupil, of Pamphilus;[21] (2) that Eusebius was literally adopted by Pamphilus.[22] A third explanation—that Eusebius was Pamphilus' biological son—has less support. It takes some support from the scholion on the Preparation for the Gospels 1.3 in the Codex Paris. 451. Most reject the scholion, but E. H. Gifford, an editor and translator of the Preparation, believes it to have been added by Arethas, tenth-century archbishop of Caesarea, who was in a position to know the truth of the matter.[23]
  3. ^ Barnes identifies the fragments in the Patrologia Graeca that comment on Luke (24.529ff.) as part of the tenth book of the General Elementary Introduction, and not an independent Commentary on Luke.[44]

Citations edit

  1. ^ Louth, "Birth of church history", 266; cf. Wallace-Hadrill, 7.
  2. ^ Wallace-Hadrill, 11.
  3. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 277; Wallace-Hadrill, 7; Quasten dates his birth to "about 263" (3.309).
  4. ^ Louth, "Birth of church history", 266; Quasten, 3.309.
  5. ^ Wallace-Hadrill, 12, citing Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.8; Theodoret, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.11.
  6. ^ Wallace-Hadrill, 12, citing Vita Constantini 1.19.
  7. ^ Wallace-Hadrill, 12, citing Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.8; Theodoret, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.11.
  8. ^ Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 7.32.4, qtd. and tr. D. S. Wallace-Hadrill, 12; Wallace-Hadrill cites J. H. Newman, The Arians of the Fourth Century (1890), 262, in 12 n. 4.
  9. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 81–82; cf. also A. H. M. Jones, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (Oxford: Clarendon, 1937), 273–74.
  10. ^ Acts 8:40, 10:1–48; Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 82, 327 n. 11.
  11. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 82.
  12. ^ Quasten, 3.309.
  13. ^ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 6.32.3–4; Kofsky, 12.
  14. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 333 n. 114, citing Eusebius, HE 6.32.1; In Is. p. 195.20–21 Ziegler.
  15. ^ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 6.32.3–4; Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 93; idem., "Eusebius of Caesarea", 2 col. 2.
  16. ^ Levine, 124–25.
  17. ^ Kofsky, 12, citing Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 7.32.25. On Origen's school, see: Gregory, Oratio Panegyrica; Kofsky, 12–13.
  18. ^ Levine, 125.
  19. ^ Levine, 122.
  20. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  21. ^ Quasten, 3.310.
  22. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  23. ^ Wallace-Hadrill, 12 n. 1.
  24. ^ Wallace-Hadrill, 11–12.
  25. ^ Quasten, 3.309–10.
  26. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 93, 95; Louth, "Birth of church history", 266.
  27. ^ Jerome, de Viris Illustribus 76, qtd. and tr. Louth, "Birth of church history", 266.
  28. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 93, 95.
  29. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 93.
  30. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 93–94.
  31. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  32. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  33. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 95.
  34. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  35. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 106.
  36. ^ Onomasticon p. 2.14ff., qtd. and tr. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 107.
  37. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 106–7.
  38. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 107.
  39. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 107.
  40. ^ Barnes, "Onomasticon", 413.
  41. ^ Barnes, "Onomasticon", 413 n. 4.
  42. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 97, 278.
  43. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 97, 102.
  44. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 334–35 n. 135.
  45. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 97.
  46. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 95–96.
  47. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 96–97.
  48. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 97.
  49. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 98.
  50. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 98.
  51. ^ The date of Eusebius' death is attested as 30 May in the Patrologia Orientalis at 10.15 (Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 263, 399 n. 37).
  52. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 105.
  53. ^ Dates after Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 277–79; else Quasten, 3.309ff.
  54. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  55. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  56. ^ Rufinus, Historia Ecclesiastica 9.6; cf. contra: Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 333 n. 119.
  57. ^ Barnes, "Onomasticon", 415 and passim. Barnes himself apparently retracts this view in later writings: see Barnes, "Eusebius", 9 col. 1: "It shows no awareness of Constantine's building activities in Palestine, but that does not necessarily prove that it must have been written before 324", citing idem., Scripta Classica Israelica 27 (2008), 59–66.
  58. ^ Quasten, 3.336.
  59. ^ [In preparation for Helena's visit.] Louth, "Birth of church history", 268.
  60. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 106; T. D. Barnes, "The Composition of Eusebius' Onomasticon", Journal of Theological Studies 26:2 (1975): 412.
  61. ^ Barnes, "Eusebius", 11 col. 2.
  62. ^ Barnes, "Eusebius", 11 col. 2.
  63. ^ Quasten, 3.333.
  64. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  65. ^ Louth, "Birth of church history", 268.
  66. ^ Quasten, 3.332.
  67. ^ Louth, "Birth of church history", 268.
  68. ^ Louth, "Birth of church history", 268.
  69. ^ Louth, "Birth of church history", 269.
  70. ^ Barnes writes "at work on", not "produces", "publishes", or "composes" as in the other items in his chronology.
  71. ^ Michael Hollerich, Eusebius of Caesarea's Commentary on Isaiah: Christian Exegesis in the Age of Constantine (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999), 19.
  72. ^ Quasten, 3.338.
  73. ^ Michael Frede, "Eusebius' Apologetic Writings", in Apologetics in the Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians, eds. Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman, Simon Price (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 223.
  74. ^ See, apr. Frede, 223, Jerome, de Viris 81; idem., Comm. in Matt. 1.16.
  75. ^ Frede, 224, citing On the Holy Spirit 29.72.
  76. ^ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94.
  77. ^ Barnes, "Eusebius", 10 cols. 1–2.
  78. ^ Barnes, "Eusebius", 11 col. 1.

Bibliography edit

Ancient sources edit

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  • Historia Ecclesiastica (Church History) first seven books ca. 300, eighth and ninth book ca. 313, tenth book ca. 315, epilogue ca. 325.
  • Migne, J.P., ed. Eusebiou tou Pamphilou, episkopou tes en Palaistine Kaisareias ta euriskomena panta (in Greek). Patrologia Graeca 19–24. Paris, 1857. Online at Khazar Skeptik and Documenta Catholica Omnia. Accessed 4 November 2009.
  • McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, trans. Church History. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at New Advent and CCEL. Accessed 28 September 2009.
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  • Onomasticon (On the Place-Names in Holy Scripture).
  • Klostermann, E., ed. Eusebius' Werke 3.1 (Die griechischen christlichen Schrifsteller der ersten (drei) Jahrhunderte 11.1. Leipzig and Berlin, 1904). Online at the Internet Archive. Accessed 29 January 2010.
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  • De Martyribus Palestinae (On the Martyrs of Palestine).
  • McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, trans. Martyrs of Palestine. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at New Advent and CCEL. Accessed June 9, 2009.
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  • Theophania (Theophany).
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  • Richardson, Ernest Cushing, trans. Oration in Praise of Constantine. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at New Advent. Accessed 19 October 2009.
  • Vita Constantini (The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine) ca. 336–39.
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  • Richardson, Ernest Cushing, trans. Life of Constantine. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at New Advent. Accessed 9 June 2009.
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Modern sources edit

  • Barnes, Timothy D. Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
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  • Levine, Lee I. Caesarea under Roman rule. Leiden: Brill, 1975.
  • Louth, Andrew. "Eusebius and the Birth of Church History". In The Cambridge history of early Christian literature, edited by Frances Margaret Young, Lewis Ayres, and Andrew Louth, 266–74. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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