The first time Eusebius really came to my attention was probably about fifteen years ago, sometime around the year 2005 or so. I first read his ecclesiastical history, thinking of it as the sort of next in history update to Luke’s history of Acts.
This was around the time and was likely through my reading of Lars P. Qualben’s church history, that random volume which became my first personal introduction to the field of church history.
It was in reading Qualben’s history and then Eusebius’ when the ever since unshakeable realization first came to me that every student of Jesus, that is to say every disciple of Yeshua of Nazareth, ought to know and learn, ought to take some time, ought to be shown at least a glimpse of these 2000 years of church history.
Every serious student of the faith, of Jesus and of this salvation ought to discover at least a summary awe of all the important intervening Acts & Monuments of which they have been entirely unaware.
Everyone who reads the Bible and comes to Jesus of the ages ought also to understand the gravity of the impact Jesus had on the world, not only on the first century and the twenty first century, but also on the twenty centuries in between.
Most who love Jesus have nearly no grasp of what Jesus continued to do in our world in the intervening 2000 years, and Eusebius’ ecclesiastical history provides precisely just such an opportunity to discover this important understanding by getting a glimpse into the fascinating, mostly forgotten and unknown life and times of Eusebius of Caesarea, three hundred years after Jesus walked the earth.
Wisdom in the WORD 