The History of the Church: From
Christ to Constantine (Penguin
Classics) by Eusebius
Should Be Required Reading For All Christians
Beginning with persecution at the beginning of the fourth century and
ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, the author
demonstrates the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of
Christianity in its struggle against persecutors and heretics.
Personal Review: The History of the Church: From Christ to
Constantine (Penguin Classics) by Eusebius
As a Bishop who suffered for Christ's sake and honored another martyr of
the faith, his Christian pastor-Bishop Pamphili, Eusebius' humble
compilation of the many Christian historical accounts and writings that
were available to most Christians around 250-330 a.d., is enlightening and
wonderfully establishes the accounts of Christian faithfulness to the
apostles and their trusted pastors whom they put in charge of various local
churches around the world. I felt as if I was walking with the disciples who

had been personally taught by Christ on how our LORD was obviously
found within all the pages of the Bible parts that we now call "old"
testament. In the pages of this faithful historical account, the Bible is
presented as a unified testimony to the glory of Christ our God. Obviously
this causes great troubles for the humanistic led mondernist who wants to
rewrite Church history to include every vile modern interpretation of the
Christian Faith. In Eusebius, you will find no support for the false modern
"scholars" who try so hard to take away from Christ's Glory by making God
only a man made in our image, and you will find no support for many other
false teachings in regards to purity and sexual destructive behaviors that
now plague the modern world.
While a modern Roman catholic might get frustrated with no substance for
some of their doctrines in early Church history (i.e. papal supreme
rulership) and find the Church relying on the faithfulness of The Holy
Spirit's discernment granted to councils of persecuted members and
pastors of the Christian church, Eusebius also troubles the antiRoman
catholic divisiveness that have plagued the modern western churches in
the name of nondenominational and denominational splits based on
modern private interpretations of Holy Scripture.
This account of early Christian history from the book of Acts for the next
250+ years, is a must read for all Christians who want to honor the heart
intent of the reformation leaders, by leading all believes to be united in our
following the ONE understanding of Christian Bible rather than the modern
divisiveness of every man becoming his own pope to privately interpret the
Bible according to his own "understanding". The faithful apostolic
understanding of our Christian Faith of the first centuries of the church is
wonderfully shown in the pages of this humble servant Eusebius Pamphili.
Eusebius later struggled in his own personal walk of faith, but thankfully
got back on the same path of all Christians as he personally heard united
accounts by all Pastors who faithfully declared the same message in
regards to the Eternal Deity of our LORD Jesus Christ that had been
taught to every Church around the world, by all faithful Apostles and their
personally trained pastors who kept the Faith in Churches in Antioch,
Phillipi, Corinth, etc. all around the world.
My Faith was greatly encouraged by this earliest compilation of Christian
historical accounts; however, I was also challenged to throw out my
antiRoman bias and to join in the reformation call to return to the early
Christian Church's ONE understanding of our Christian Faith as found in
the Orthodox Catholic churches in every faithful Christian Church around
the world as it has been preserved for almost 2000 years in the continuity
of our One Faith, One LORD, One Baptism, in the Orthodox Church,
whether in Antioch, "where they were first called Christians" or in Phillipi,
Galatia or wherever the Gospel was preached in the ancient Greek and
Antiochian Orthodox Church.

The testimonies in Eusebius clearly show that the Christian Church never
wavered from the Faith no matter how many heretics attacked our
apostolically faithful understanding of the Christian Faith as taught by our
LORD, and no matter how many of our pastors, bishops and family
members suffered horrifying physical tortures at the hands of our enemies.
It is also wonderful to find Emperor of Rome Constantine to provide some
relief to some Christians from our persecution, although later Roman
emperors did sometimes return to persecuting our fellow brethren and
pastors.
I found a beautiful picture in the writings of Eusebius of Emperor of Rome
Constantine, bowing down to our persecuted body members of Christ, as
we read of Bishops coming to our Council with one eye gouged out, or with
missing limbs or with grave marks of torture on other parts of their bodies.
Unfortunately for some of us, this does put a damper on the modern
fictionalized theory that somehow Emperor of Rome Constantine made
himself ruler of the Christian Church and brought forth changes in our
doctrine and understanding of our One Faith; but thankfully, once we begin
to understand the faithfulness of The Holy Spirit in the calling of faithful
pastors and members of the body of Christ, we are no longer stuck in
privately interpreting the Bible according to our own liking, or in a
protestant or roman catholic view, but all of us can once again return to the
faithful Orthodox understanding of our Christian Faith.
An additional follow up to this book may be found in "ACTS" by Jaroslav
Pelikan, the great Lutheran theologian and Yale Historian, who later found
the same faithful Orthodox Catholic Christian Faith that almost all
members of the early Christian councils followed. [...]
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