Eusebius of Caesarea

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260/265–339/340 AD), known as Eusebius Pamphili, was bishop of Caesarea, Palestine, from 314 until his death, and is considered a Church Father. His hermeneutical works include Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Biblical text. He is renowned for his historical works, which include the Ecclesiastical History, On the Life of Pamphilus, the Chronicle and On the Martyrs.

Quotes

 * He that will deserve the name of a Christian must be such a man as excelleth through the knowledge of Christ and His doctrine; in modesty and righteousness of mind, in constancy of life, in virtuous fortitude, and in maintaining sincere piety toward the one and the only God, who is all in all.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 103.

Ecclesiastical History

 * [Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.
 * 1.2.
 * All of these credited for righteousness, going back from Abraham to the first man, could be described as Christians in fact if not in name, without exceeding the truth. For the name means that the Christian, through the knowledge and teaching of Christ, excels in self-control and righteousness, in disciplines and virtue, and in the confession of the one and only God over all, and in all this they showed no less zeal than we.
 * 1.4
 * While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.
 * 2.1.

Quotes about Eusebius

 * In the early Christian Church these germs began struggling into life in the minds of a few thinking men, and these men renewed the suggestion that the earth is a globe. ...Among the first who took up arms against it was Eusebius. In view of the New Testament texts indicating the immediately approaching end of the world, he endeavoured to turn off this idea by bringing scientific studies into contempt. Speaking of investigators, he said, "It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to better things."
 * see Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica (Preparation for the Gospel) xv, 6l.
 * Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) Ch.2, p. 91-92.