The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius by Evagrius Scholasticus

In his description of the great pestilence which continued its The history, in many places, shows a minute familiarity with the localities of Antioch: and the prominent interest which the writer variously manifests in that city and its fortunes, can only be accounted for by supposing that it was his ordinary residence, and the principal scene of his professional practice. The earliest circumstance which the historian mentions respecting himself, is his visit when a child, in company with his parents, to Apamea, to witness the solemn display of the wood of the cross, amidst the consternation caused by the sack of Antioch by Chosroes (Book IV. He was by profession a Scholasticus, or advocate, and by this title he is commonly distinguished from other persons of the same name. THE very few particulars which are known respecting the author of the following History, are gathered from the history itself.Įvagrius was a native of Epiphania on the Orontes, and his birth may be fixed about A.D. GRAMMARS, CONCORDANCES, AND PSALTERS, IN ANCIENT WAREHOUSE FOR BIBLES, NEW TESTAMENTS, PRAYER-BOOKS, LEXICONS, Lexikon, 2:37 Schaff, History of the Christian Church, 3:882.Evagrius Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History (AD431-594), translated byĮvagrius Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History (AD431-594), 1851, 12mo) into German by REssler, in his Bibl. 6 volumes, 8vo) and in Bohn's Ecclesiastes Library (Lond. Graca, volume 79 translated into English, A History of the Church, with an account of the Author and his Writings, trans.

Scriptores cun not/s Valesi et Reading, Cantab. reprinted, with some additional 'variorum' notes, under the title Eccl. and Lat., is that of Valesius (Henri de Valois), which includes Eusebius and the other early Greek ecclesiastical historians (Par. He is credulous and superstitious, but orthodox. 431, to the twelfth year of the reign of the emperor Maurice, A.D. Evagrius wrote An Ecclesiastical History, in continuation, of Eusebius and Theodoret, which extends from the Council of Ephesus, A.D. He was made quaestorian, as a reward for his professional skill, by the emperor Tiberius.

He rendered essential service to the patriarch Gregory, whom he defended (against charges of adultery and incest) at a synod in Constantinople, A.D. He lived in Antioch, where he was a lawyer (scholasticus), whence his surname. Evagrius Scholasticus the Church historian, was probably born at Epiphaneia, on the Orontes, in or about A.D.

The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius by Evagrius Scholasticus