Historia Ecclesiastica
The Church History
Eusebius of Caesarea
Edition & AttributionTranslator, publisher and source details for this edition.
- Translator
- Arthur Cushman McGiffert
- Series
- A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume I
- Editor
- Philip Schaff and Henry Wace
- Publisher
- The Christian Literature Company, New York; Parker and Company, Oxford and London
- Year
- 1890
- Revision
- The Church History only (Books I-X, printed pp. 81-387, with the Martyrs of Palestine, pp. 342-356). The same volume's Life of Constantine and Orations are a different translator's work (Richardson) and are not part of this text. Transcribed from the CCEL ThML of NPNF2-1, whose integrity was audited against the dated 1890 scan before this build, which found no body-text loss in any division. Section numbers are McGiffert's marginal numerals as printed, including three places where the print itself skips a numeral (I.7 has no section 16, II.1 no section 6, III.20 no section 3), and each section begins where its numeral stands in the print: every numbered boundary was checked against the page, which moved 47 section openings from where the CCEL text had put them, added the three numerals CCEL lacks (V.21.5, VI.41.23, X.6.5) and removed the numbering CCEL gave to V.25 and VI.45, which the print leaves unnumbered. Where a numeral falls inside an English sentence, following the Greek, the section begins at the nearest sentence. Short chapters that McGiffert prints without section numerals are a single section. Eighteen readings and one chapter title in which the CCEL text departs from the print are corrected to it, each read off the page image. The work's own text only. McGiffert's notes, about three-quarters of the printed volume, are not transcribed, so a reader comparing this text with the printed NPNF will find none of the annotation. Where a note is nothing but a scripture reference identifying the passage Eusebius quotes, that reference is kept as a link at the note's position.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- License
- public-domain-base
- Public-domain basis
- Published simultaneously in 1890 by The Christian Literature Company, New York, and Parker and Company, Oxford and London; title page and copyright page ("COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY") read by eye off the dated scan, Internet Archive cu31924031002102, leaves n4 and n5. A pre-1930 United States publication, public domain on publication date alone, independent of renewal.
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