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EUSEBIUS [OF EMESA] (d. c. "36o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 957 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUSEBIUS [OF EMESA] (d. c. "36o)  , a learned ecclesiastic of the See also:Greek See also:church, was See also:born at See also:Edessa about the beginning of the 4th See also:century . After receiving his See also:early See also:education in his native See also:town, he studied See also:theology at Caesarea and See also:Antioch and See also:philosophy and See also:science at See also:Alexandria . Among his teachers were See also:Eusebius of Caesarea and Patrophilus of Scythopolis . The reputation he acquired for learning and eloquence led to his being offered the see of Alexandria in See also:succession to the deposed See also:Athanasius at the beginning of 339, but he declined, and the See also:council (of Antioch) See also:chose See also:Gregory of See also:Cappadocia, " a fitter See also:agent for the rough See also:work to be done." Eusebius accepted the small bishopric of Emesa (the See also:modern Horns) in See also:Phoenicia, but his See also:powers as mathematician and astronomer led his See also:flock to accuse him of practising sorcery, and he had to flee to See also:Laodicea . A reconciliation was effected by the See also:patriarch of Antioch, but tradition says that Eusebius finally resigned his See also:charge and lived a studious See also:life in Antioch . His fame as an astrologer commended him to the See also:notice of the See also:emperor See also:Constantius II., with whom he became a See also:great favourite, accompanying him on many of his expeditions . The theological sympathies of Eusebius were with the semi-Arian party, but his See also:interest in the controversy was not strong . His life was written by his friend See also:George of Laodicea . He was a See also:man of extraordinary learning, great eloquence and considerable intellectual See also:power, but of his numerous writings only a few fragments are now in existence . See See also:Migne, See also:Patrol . Graec. vol. lxxxvi . See also:Confessor's See also:court .

A brawl in which he and his servants became involved with the citizens of See also:

Dover led to a serious See also:quarrel between the See also:king and See also:Earl See also:Godwine . The latter, to whose See also:jurisdiction the men of Dover were subject, refused to punish them . His See also:contumacy was made the excuse for the See also:outlawry of himself and his See also:family . In ro66 Eustace came to See also:England with See also:Duke See also:William, and fought at the See also:battle of See also:Hastings . In the following See also:year, probably because he was dissatisfied with his See also:share of the spoil, he assisted the Kentishmen in an See also:attempt to seize Dover See also:Castle . The See also:conspiracy failed, and Eustace was sentenced to established his court at See also:Byzantium, was regarded as the See also:capital of the eastern See also:part of the See also:empire . He warmly espoused the cause of See also:Arius in his quarrel with his See also:bishop See also:Alexander, and wrote a See also:letter in his See also:defence to See also:Paulinus, bishop of See also:Tyre, which is pre-served in the Church See also:History of See also:Theodoret . Trained in the school of See also:Lucian of Antioch, his views appear to have been identical with those of Eusebius of Caesarea in placing See also:Christ above all created beings, the only begotten of the See also:Father, but in refusing to recognize him to be " of the same substance " with the Father, who is alone in essence and See also:absolute being . At the council of See also:Nicaea Eusebius of See also:Nicomedia earnestly opposed, along with his namesake of Caesarea, the insertion of the Homousian clause, but after being defeated in his See also:object he also signed the creed in his own sense of oµows /See also:car' ovoiay . He refused, however, to sign the See also:anathema directed against the Arians, not, as he afterwards explained, because of his variance from the Athanasian theology, but " because he doubted whether Arius really held what the anathema imputed to him " (Sozom. ii . 15) . After the council he continued vigorously to espouse the Arian cause, and was so far carried away in his zeal against See also:character .

" He was an evil man and did more harm than See also:

good wherever he went; he spoiled the lands and laid thereon heavy taxes." He had used threats against the recalcitrant bishops, and in the See also:war against the Angevin party had demanded contributions from religious houses; these facts perhaps suffice to See also:account for the See also:verdict of the chronicler . See See also:Sir See also:James See also:Ramsay, See also:Foundations of England, vol. ii . (See also:London, 1898) ; J . M . See also:Lappenberg, History of England under the See also:Norman See also:Kings (trans . B . See also:Thorpe, See also:Oxford, 1857) ; and E . A . See also:Freeman, History of the Norman See also:Conquest (Oxford, 1867–1879) .

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