Cf. Eus., HE 7.32.26.
De Boor notes, "wie Nr. 5"—i.e., this sentence repeats the wording of no. 5 above (and so De Boor did not print the whole sentence again).
Gk. ἐμαρτύρησαν .
Cf. Eus., VC 1.25, which Hansen, "Eine fingierte Ansprache," p. 195, considers to be a source that Philip is expanding here.
Hansen ( in app. ) suggests that this is possibly to be read as a reference to Sauromatae .
I.e., the Franci .
Dan. 10.13; Jos. 5.14.
Jos. 10.11.
I.e., in the poems--or perhaps "among them," meaning "among the pagans."
This part of the sentence appears to be corrupt; I have translated in accordance with my sense of the point, which would require a correction of τινες to τινας , τινας to τισί , in addition to the deletion of αὐτοῖς endorsed by Hansen and the use of the variant ἐξιστόρησαν not adopted by Hansen.
With this phrase, the anonymous compiler turns from "Rufinus" (mentioned at 1.17) to another source.
Cf. Eus., HE 10.9.4, which is the source of some of the wording here.
Hansen, "Eine fingierte Ansprache," p. 194 n. 45, notes the ironic use of this word.
At this point the anonymous compiler adds a letter from Theodoret, HE 1.20, to confirm the account (cf. Hansen, "Eine fingierte Ansprache," p. 194).
From this point, Hansen identifies a fragment of Gelasius of Caesarea in addition to the suggestion that the account is derived from Philip.
Hansen, "Eine fingierte Ansprache," p. 195, identifies the following as one (or two) of a whole series of possible "additions" to the basic framework of 2.1.12 - 2.6.1. In general here, the anonymous compiler is following Gelasius of Caesarea, but Hansen considers some passages likely to have come instead from Philip; in the passage translated here, he points out the style (asyndetic lists of qualities) and the attribution to unspecified "writings." Needless to say, the precise boundaries of what belongs to Philip here are difficult to draw; I have put into italics material that Hansen definitely does not attribute to Philip's voice, but some of the rest may not be Philip's either.
I.e., bishop.
This account, including its rhetorically composed oration, which is most unlikely to reflect Constantine's actual words on this occations, is quite different from Eusebius' contemporary account ( Life of Constantine 3.11-12).
I.e., the assembled bishops.
While the narration leading up to this section comes from Gelasius of Caesarea, the introduction to the speech is modelled on the description given by Theodoret, HE 1.7.11; the words preserved verbatim are printed in italics.
κεφάλαιον ; the precise reference is obscure.
The descriptions of the church building that begin here seem to be a metaphor for the Church as a whole, or rather for the gathering of bishops at the Council of Nicaea; if this latter suggestion is correct, Hansen's emendation, ἡτοίμασε ("he prepared") for the mss. ἤθροισε ("he gathered together") seems unnecessary.
στέφανοι , sometimes translated "crowns."
I have adapted the figure here; literally, "being born" and "growing."
I.e., the "fear of the Lord."