Constantine dies. Sometime in the weeks before his death nearNicomedia, he was baptized. In the early Christian church, it was common to delaybaptismuntil death was imminent because it was believed that baptism cleansed thesinsthat had accrued during life....
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or in any manner directly or indirectly to take human life; by whatsoever means; we believe that bearing arms is directly contrary to this fundamental doctrine of our belief; we therefore conscientiously refuse to bear arms or to come under the military authority." (Armstrong,...
Define Eusebian. Eusebian synonyms, Eusebian pronunciation, Eusebian translation, English dictionary definition of Eusebian. n. 1. A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius. Webster's Revised Unabridged Diction
Christians in the Sasanian empire: a case of divided loyalties In that much discussed panegyric, the Life of Constantine, Eusebius tells how the emperor, having heard that there were 'many churches of God in Persia and that large numbers were gathered into the fold of Christ, resolved to ...
Oration of Constantine, by Eusebius (b. ca. 260) City of God, by St. Augustine (b. 354) Prophecy of the Tiburtine Sybil, Author Unknown (written ca. 380) Footnotes: 1 The Song of the Sibyl: Judicii signum tellus sudore madescet. E caelo rex adveniet per saecla futurus ...
Vladimir’s Seminary Quarterly 2, No.1 (winter 1958) AtlaReligion (22 February 2004), 14, traces the use of the shape of the cross from Paul to St. Justin then to an announcement by St. Cyprian in 248. [Return] Eusebius (340) "Life of Constantine,"The Conversion of Constantine, ed...
(Preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Life of Constantine 2:64–72, Gelasius of Cyzicus, 2:4, Socrates Scholasticus’ Ecclesiastical History 1:7) (324–5AD) Letter to Porphyrius (Optatian). Synopsis: This letter to Porphyrius or Optatian was on the occasion of the sending of a poem ...
Without distinction of sex, he will begin to live the life of angels, and will possess all their powers, of which he had but a faint sign here; he will then again enjoy the incense of the eternal temple, the source of all power, from which he was exiled, and Christ will be his ...
According to Eusebius'Life of Constantine, Book III chapter 18, a more accurate translation of that last line above from the Roman Emperor Constantine should be: Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way. ...