Library Eusebius of Nicomedia

Eusebius of Nicomedia

Letters and Fragments

c. 318–328

The surviving letters and fragments of Eusebius of Nicomedia (d. 342), Arius’s leading episcopal ally and later bishop of Constantinople: the letter to Paulinus of Tyre on the Son’s creation and begetting; a fragment to Arius on beginning; the homoousios line preserved by Ambrose; and the joint petition with Theognis after exile.

Translated by Blomfield Jackson; Archibald Robertson; A. C. Zenos; H. de Romestin et al. (NPNF)

English from Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II: Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History (tr. Blomfield Jackson); Athanasius, De Synodis (tr. Archibald Robertson); Socrates, Ecclesiastical History (tr. A. C. Zenos); Ambrose, Exposition of the Christian Faith (NPNF). Public domain. Digital text via New Advent Church Fathers. In the letter to Paulinus, the clause κτιστὸν … τῇ οὐσίᾳ is aligned to the Greek where Jackson’s “in the same substance” is misleading.

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