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The Preparation of the Gospel · Introduction1

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Eusebius of Caesarea: Praeparatio Evangelica (Preparation for the Gospel). Tr. E.H. Gifford (1903) -- Introduction

LONDINI ET NOVI EBORACI

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APUD HENRICUM FROWDE

ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΜΦΙΛΟΥ

ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗΣ

ΛΟΓΟΙ ΙΕ

EUSEBII PAMPHILI

EVANGELICAE PRAEPARATIONIS

LIBRI XV

AD CODICES MANUSCRIPTOS DENUO COLLATOS RECENSUIT

ANGLICE NUNC PRIMUM REDDIDIT

NOTIS ET INDICIBUS INSTRUXIT

E. H. GIFFORD, S.T.P.

OLIM ARCHIDIACONUS LONDINENSIS

TOMUS III. PARS PRIOR

OXONII

E TYPOGRAPHEO ACADEMICO

M. CM. III

OXONII

Excudebat Horatius Hart

Typographus academicus

INTRODUCTION

1. THE AUTHOR. The prominent position occupied by Eusebius of Caesarea in the Arian controversy and the Council of Nicaea has given rise to so many important treatises on his life and character, that it would be quite superfluous to prefix a formal biography to the present edition of one among his many literary works. It will be sufficient to mention a few of the best sources of information accessible to the English reader.

(1) The article in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography on Eusebius of Caesarea by the late Bishop G. E. L. Cotton.