Eusebius the Bishop

Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, was diligent in the study of the Divine Scriptures and, together with Pamphilus the martyr, a most careful researcher of the Holy Bible. He published a great number of volumes, among them these: The Demonstration of the Gospel, twenty books; The Preparation for the Gospel, fifteen books; The Theophany, five books; The Church History, ten books; a Chronicle of universal history, and an Epitome of it; also On the Discrepancies between the Gospels; On Isaiah, ten books; also Against Porphyry, who, as some think, was writing in Sicily at that same time, twenty-five books; one book of Topics; six books of the Apology for Origen; three books On the Life of Pamphilus; other short works On the Martyrs; very learned Commentaries on the hundred and fifty Psalms; and many others. He flourished chiefly in the reigns of Constantine the Great and Constantius. His surname, Pamphilus, came from his friendship with Pamphilus the martyr. [a]