Ecclesiastical History
Eusebius's foundational history of the Christian Church from the apostolic age to his own time, preserving important testimony about the Septuagint, the Essenes, and Origen's devotion to Scripture.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Book VII, chapter 28 cited via Anatolius: the Seventy Translators answered Ptolemy's questions from traditions of Moses
"Anatolius, cited by Eusebius in Book VII of his History, chapter 28, reports that the Seventy Translators answered the many questions of Ptolemy Philadelphus"
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Book 14 of the History cited on the Essenes and the Alexandrian school
"in Eusebius, book 14 of his History of the Essenes, how diligently the Essenes — the first, I say, of those Alexandrian Christians — from dawn to night spent the entire day in reading"
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Eusebius cited: Origen from boyhood recited sacred sayings daily to his father
"regarding Origen, Eusebius attests that from boyhood he had begun this practice, and was accustomed to render and recite to his father each day several sacred sayings from memory"