Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel)
Eusebius · the ante-Nicene period · 15 parts
Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel), by Eusebius, writing in the ante-Nicene period, given here in 15 parts.
Parts
- Book I I. What the treatise on the Gospel promises II. The charges usually brought against us by those who try to slander our doctrines III. That we did not…
- Book II I. Epitome of Egyptian theology, and how it was transmitted to the Greeks; and that we have had good reason for abandoning it all That the theology…
- Book III I. The physical theology of the Greeks III. The allegorical theology of the Egyptians IV. Further consideration of the physical system of the…
- Book IV I. Preface concerning the oracles in various cities, and the most celebrated responses by the extraordinary manifestations of daemons, and our reason…
- Book IX I. The Greek historians who mentioned the Jewish nation II. Theophrastus concerning the Jews, from Porphyry On Abstinence from Animal Food, Bk. i…
- Book V I. Further proof that the prophetic and oracular shrines among the heathen belonged to evil daemons, and how they have all been destroyed and have…
- Book VI I. The seeming prophecies of the daemons in the oracles are conjectures from the course of the stars, like those made by men. II. They destroy our…
- Book VII I. Concerning the mode of life of the original Hebrews, and the good reasons for our preferring their divine Scriptures to the doctrines of our…
- Book VIII I. On the religious polity of Moses II. Aristeas on the translation of the Jewish Scriptures III. Letter of Demetrius Phalereus to Ptolemy, King of…
- Book X I. How the serious branches of learning passed from Barbarians to Greeks: also concerning the antiquity of the Hebrews II. Of the plagiarism of the…
- Book XI Preface concerning the argument. I. How the philosophy of Plato followed that of the Hebrews in the most essential points II. Atticus on the…
- Book XII I. That the Hebrews, according to Plato, were right in imparting to beginners the belief in their instructions in a simple form because of their…
- Book XIII I. How Plato exposed the absurdity of the Greek theology. From the Timaeus II. Further on the same subject from the dialogue Epinomis III. Further on…
- Book XIV I. Preface concerning the subject of the Book II. On the mutual contradiction and conflict of the philosophers III. On the harmony of the Hebrew…
- Book XV I. Preface concerning the whole argument II. On the philosophy of Aristotle, and his personal history. From Aristocles the Peripatetic III. On the…