Author : Evagrius
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A History of the Church in Six Books by : Evagrius
Download or read book A History of the Church in Six Books written by Evagrius and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very few particulars which are known respecting the author of the following History, are gathered from the history itself. Evagrius was a native of Epiphania on the Orontes, and his birth may be fixed about a. d. 536. He was by profession a Scholasticus, or advocate, and by this title he is commonly distinguished from other persons of the same name. 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. chap. xxvi). 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. Aeterna Press