Person
Eusebius of Caesarea
about 260–339
Bishop of Caesarea and historian
Attested. The books, the letter, and the signature are secure. His claim that Constantine proposed homoousios is his own account. Many historians think Ossius advised the emperor.
Eusebius wrote the Ecclesiastical History and a Life of Constantine. At Nicaea he hesitated over homoousios because the word is not in Scripture and had been tied to Paul of Samosata. He signed. His letter to his own church, copied by Athanasius and by Socrates, says Constantine explained the word as meaning no bodily division in God, and that the anathemas matched what Eusebius already rejected in Arius. The letter is his defense, not a transcript. He is not the man who baptized Constantine. That was Eusebius of Nicomedia. In 335 he sat at Tyre with the council that deposed Athanasius.
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No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
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