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Eusebius: Preparation for the Gospel, Part 2

Eusebius of Caesarea · translated by E. H. Gifford · c. 313; translation 1903

Books 10–15: the Greeks' debt to the Hebrews, Plato set beside Moses, and the contradictions of the philosophers.

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From the opening: Book X (continued)

those certainly the very men who were greatly renowned in Greece, doctrines carefully examined also in the discussions of the philosophers.

Now these men you would find to be few in number, because all excellence is proverbially diffieult to attain; but nevertheless they have been honoured with the first place among the philosophers of Greece, so that through b their great fame they overshadow the reputation of their fellows.

But you must not be surprised if we say that possibly the doctrines of the Hebrews have been plagiarised by them, since they are not only proved to have stolen the other branches of learning from Egyptians and Chaldees and the rest of the barbarous nations, but even to the present day are detected in robbing one another of the honours gained in their own writings.

At all events one after another they surreptitiously steal the phrases of their neighbours together with the thoughts c and whole arrangement of treatises, and pride themselves as if upon their own labours. And do not suppose that this is my statement, for you shall again hear the very wisest of them convicting one another of theft in their writings.

And this very fact, since we have once mentioned it, we must consider as evidence before all else of the character of the said persons. Our Clement then, in his sixth Miscellany, has arranged the proof of this point at full d length: so take and read me his words first, such as the following:

CuaPrER

‘Now after having shown that the significance of Greek CLEMENT thought was illumined on all sides from the truth bestowed on us through the Scriptures, according to the sense which we took in proving that the theft of the truth (if it be not offensive to say so)

461 d 4 Clement, Miscellanies, vi. c. 2, § 4 B 2 491 RO

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CLEMENT came home to them; let us proceed to bring forward the Greeks as witnesses of the theft against themselves.

p.462 ‘For they who so openly filch their own works one from another establish the fact that they are thieves, and betray, however unwillingly, that they are secretly appropriating to their own countrymen the truth borrowed from us. For if they do not keep their hands off even from one another, it is not likely that they will from our writers.

* Now of their philosophical doctrines I shall say nothing, since the very men who have divided themselves into sects, confess in writing, in order that they may not be…

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Contents (223 sections)

  1. MM
  2. Title page
  3. Book X
  4. Book X (continued)
  5. Book X (continued)
  6. Book X (continued)
  7. Book X (continued)
  8. Book X (continued)
  9. Book X (continued)
  10. Chapter LV
  11. Book X (continued)
  12. Book X (continued)
  13. Book X (continued)
  14. Book X (continued)
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  18. Book X (continued)
  19. Book X (continued)
  20. Book X (continued)
  21. Chapter XI
  22. Book X (continued)
  23. Book X (continued)
  24. Book X (continued)
  25. Book X (continued)
  26. “The first-born son of cloud-compelling Zeus,” and the abduction of Europa from Crete to…
  27. Book X (continued)
  28. Book X (continued)
  29. Book X (continued)
  30. Chapter XIV
  31. Preface (continued)
  32. Book XI (continued)
  33. Book XI (continued)
  34. Book XI (continued)
  35. Book XI (continued)
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  63. Book XI (continued)
  64. Book XII
  65. Book XII (continued)
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  70. Book XII (continued)
  71. Book XII (continued)
  72. Book XII (continued)
  73. Book XII (continued)
  74. Chapter XVII
  75. Book XII (continued)
  76. Book XII (continued)
  77. Book XII (continued)
  78. Book XII (continued)
  79. Chapters XXVII–XXVIII
  80. Book XII (continued)
  81. Book XII (continued)
  82. Book XII (continued)
  83. Book XII (continued)
  84. Book XII (continued)
  85. Chapters XXXVI–XXXIX
  86. Chapters XLII–XLIV
  87. Book XII (continued)
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  100. Book XII (continued)
  101. Book XIII
  102. Book XIII (continued)
  103. Preface
  104. Book XIII (continued)
  105. Book XIII (continued)
  106. Book XIII (continued)
  107. Book XIII (continued)
  108. Book XIII (continued)
  109. Chapter V
  110. Book XIII (continued)
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  132. Book XIII (continued)
  133. Book XIII, Chap. XVIII
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  137. Book XIII (continued)
  138. Book XIV
  139. Book XIV (continued)
  140. Preface (continued)
  141. Book XIV (continued)
  142. Book XIV (continued)
  143. Book XIV (continued)
  144. Book XIV (continued)
  145. Chapter V
  146. Book XIV (continued)
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  155. Book XIV (continued)
  156. Chapter XIV
  157. Book XIV (continued)
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  174. Book XIV (continued)
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  176. Book XIV (continued)
  177. Book XV
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  202. Book XV (continued)
  203. Book XV (continued)
  204. Chapters XXIV–XXV
  205. Or the Shape of the Sun
  206. Book XV (continued)
  207. Book XV (continued)
  208. Chapter XXXIV — Whether the World Has a Soul, and Is Administered by Providence
  209. Book XV (continued)
  210. Whether the World Is Imperishable
  211. From What Source the World Is Sustained
  212. Book XV (continued)
  213. Book XV (continued)
  214. Book XV (continued)
  215. Book XV (continued)
  216. Of the Figure of the Earth
  217. Of the Position of the Earth
  218. Book XV (continued)
  219. Of the Parts of the Soul
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Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius: Preparation for the Gospel, Part 2. Translated by E. H. Gifford. Internet Archive, c. 313; translation 1903. https://archive.org/details/p2evangelicaepra03euse
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Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius: Preparation for the Gospel, Part 2. Translated by E. H. Gifford, Internet Archive, c. 313; translation 1903. https://archive.org/details/p2evangelicaepra03euse
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Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 313; translation 1903). Eusebius: Preparation for the Gospel, Part 2 (E. H. Gifford, Trans.). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/p2evangelicaepra03euse

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