Eusebius's four books on the first Christian emperor, written soon after Constantine's death in 337: his rise, his conversion, the sign of the cross, the Council of Nicaea, his laws and churches, and his baptism and death. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1890), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Contents
Book 1
1Preface: The Death of Constantine2The Preface Continued3God Honors Godly Rulers and Destroys Tyrants4God Honored Constantine5A Reign of Over Thirty Years, a Life of Over Sixty6The Servant of God and Conqueror of Nations7Cyrus and Alexander Compared8He Conquered Nearly the Whole World9Son of a Godly Emperor, Father of Royal Sons10Why This History Is Needed11Only His Religious Deeds Will Be Told12Raised like Moses in the Palaces of Kings13His Father Constantius Refuses to Persecute14Constantius Fills His Treasury and Gives It Back15The Persecution Raised by His Colleagues16Constantius Tests the Faith of His Court17His Father’s Christian Household18Constantius Becomes Senior Emperor19Young Constantine in Palestine with Diocletian20Constantine Flees to His Father21The Death of Constantius22The Army Proclaims Constantine Augustus23The End of the Persecutors Passed Over24Emperor by the Will of God25Victories over the Barbarians and the Britons26He Resolves to Free Rome from Maxentius27He Chooses the God of His Father28The Cross of Light at Midday29Christ Appears to Him in His Sleep30The Making of the Standard of the Cross31The Standard Called the Labarum32Constantine Is Taught and Reads the Scriptures33The Outrages of Maxentius at Rome34A Prefect’s Wife Chooses Death over Dishonor35Maxentius Slaughters the People of Rome36The Sorcery of Maxentius, and Famine at Rome37The Armies of Maxentius Defeated in Italy38The Death of Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge39Constantine Enters Rome40The Statue of Constantine Holding a Cross41Rejoicing in the Provinces, and Constantine’s Favors42The Honors He Gave to Bishops, and the Building of Churches43Constantine’s Generosity to the Poor44How He Took Part in the Synods of Bishops45His Patience with Unreasonable Men46Victories over the Barbarians47The Death of Maximin, and Plots Revealed by God48The Tenth Anniversary of His Reign49How Licinius Oppressed the East50Licinius Plots Against Constantine51Licinius Schemes Against the Bishops and Forbids Synods52Christians Banished and Their Property Seized53Women Forbidden to Meet with Men in the Churches54Christians Dismissed from the Army, and Prisoners Left to Starve55The Lawlessness and Greed of Licinius56Licinius Turns at Last to Persecution57Galerius, Struck by a Loathsome Disease, Issues an Edict for the Christians58Maximin Flees in the Disguise of a Slave59Maximin, Struck Blind, Issues an Edict for the Christians