Eusebius of caesarea biography of william hill

Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, apologist, Biblical exegete, and the earliest Church historian; b. c. 260; d. c. 339. Nothing is known of his family; but it was at Caesarea that he was baptized, as an adult, and entered the ranks of the clergy.

In a city where origen had taught for so many years, Eusebius was heir to a scholarly tradition mediated to him through pamphilus, who had been a pupil of Pierius at Alexandria.

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Pamphilus had also collected a library, which was a center for scholarly work. So close did Eusebius draw to his older companion in friendship and in the furtherance of literary and textual labors that he adopted the name Eusebius Pamphili, the son or servant of Pamphilus, and it is by this name that he was commonly designated.

Life. The work of the scholars of Caesarea was not disrupted by the persecution of 303 to 313.

Eusebius was himself at times away from the city, e.g., at Tyre and in Egypt, where, as at Caesarea itself, he witness