Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 01 — Section 16
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 1
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His parents are entirely unknown. Nicephorus Callistus (H. E. VI. 37) reports that his mother was a sister of Pamphilus. He does not mention his authority for this statement, and it is extremely unlikely, in the face of the silence of Eusebius himself and of all other writers, that it is true. It is far more probable that the relationship was later assumed to account for the close intimacy of the two men. Arius, in an epistle addressed to Eusebius of Nicomedia (contained in Theodoret's Hist. Eccles. I. 5), calls Eusebius of Cæsarea the latter's brother. It is objected to this that Euse…
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