Ursprungligen postat av JemyM
"The wretched Eusebius will have it that poems in hexameters are to be found even among them, and sets up a claim that the study of logic exists among the Hebrews, since he has heard among the Hellenes the word they use for logic."
- Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus 362 CE
"It is, I think, expedient to set forth to all mankind the reasons by which I was convinced that the fabrication of the Galilaeans* is a fiction of men composed by wickedness.
Though it has in it nothing divine, by making full use of that part of the soul which loves fable and is childish and foolish, it has induced men to believe that the monstrous tale is truth."
- Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus 362 CE
"Galilaeans" är Julianus namn på kristna
"Eusebius studied Josephus diligently, and could thus masquerade as he, except when he used the word 'tribe' to describe the Christians. All the literature from the Ante-Nicene Fathers show they never used the word 'tribe' or 'race' with reference to the Christians, was [sic] either by the Fathers or when they quoted non-Christian writers. Tertullian, Pliny the Younger, Trajan, Rufinus--none use 'tribe' to refer to Christians. Eusebius is the first to start the practice."
- Kerry Shirts, "Did Josephus Mention Jesus?"
"The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related what might rebound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
Such an acknowledgment will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not paid a very strict regard to the observance of the other; and the suspicion will derive additional credit from the character of Eusebius, which was less tinctured with credulity, and more practiced in the arts of courts, than that of almost any of his contemporaries".
- Gibbons
"The famous passage which we find in Josephus, about Jesus Christ, was never mentioned nor alluded to in any way whatever by any of the fathers of the first, second, or third centuries; nor until the time of Eusebius, ‘when it was first quoted by himself.’ The truth is, none of these fathers could quote or allude to a passage which did not exist in their times; but was to all points short of absolute certainty, forged and interpolated by Eusebius."
- Mitchell Logan
"not until the mass of inventions labelled 'Eusebius' shall be exposed, can the pretended references to Christians in Pagan writers of the first three centuries be recognized for the forgeries they are."
- Edwin Johnson
"a political propagandist"
Erik Peterson, Der Monotheismus als politisches Problem (Munich, 1951)
"a good courtier"
Henri Grégoire, "L'authenticité et l'historicité de la Vita Constantini attribuée ê Eusèbe de Césarée,"
Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, 39 (1953) 462-479, quoted in T. D. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (Cambridge, Mass., 1981)
"the shrewd and worldly adviser of the Emperor Constantine"
Arnaldo Momigliano, "Pagan and Christian Historiography in the Fourth Century," in The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century, ed. A. Momigliano (Oxford, 1963)
"the great publicist of the first Christian emperor"
Robert Markus, "The Roman Empire in Early Christian Historiography," The Downside Review 81 (1963)
"the first in a long succession of ecclesiastical politicians"
Charles N. Cochrane, Christianity and Classical Culture (1940; reprint, Oxford, 1966)
"the herald of Byzantinism"
Hendrik Berkhof, Die Theologie des Eusebius von Caesarea (Amsterdam, 1939)
"a political theologian"
Hans Eger, "Kaiser und Kirche in der Geschichtstheologie Eusebs von Cäsarea", Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 38 (1939)
"a political metaphysician"
Per Beskow, Rex Gloriae. The Kingship of Christ in the Early Church (Uppsala, 1962)
"a caesaropapist"
J. M. Sansterre, "Eusèbe de Césarée et la naissance de la théorie 'césaropapiste,'" Byzantion 42 (1972)
