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| Prologue.--Design of the History.
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The ECCLESIASTICAL
HistorY of Theodoret.
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Book I.
Prologue.—Design of the History.
When artists paint on panels and on walls the events of ancient
history, they alike delight the eye, and keep bright for many a year
the memory of the past. Historians substitute books for panels, bright
description for pigments, and thus render the memory of past events
both stronger and more permanent, for the painter’s art is ruined
by time. For this reason I too shall attempt to record in writing
events in ecclesiastical history hitherto omitted, deeming it indeed
not right to look on without an effort while oblivion robs235
noble deeds and useful stories of their
due fame. For this cause too I have been frequently urged by friends to
undertake this work. But when I compare my own powers with the
magnitude of the undertaking, I shrink from attempting it. Trusting,
however, in the bounty of the Giver of all good, I enter upon a task
beyond my own strength.
Eusebius of Palestine236
| 236 Cf.
Basil de Spir. Sanct., 29. “ὁ παλαιστῖνος” means “of Cæsarea,” his see, to
distinguish him from his namesake, Bishop of Nicomedia. | has written a history of the Church from
the time of the holy Apostles to the reign of Constantine, the prince
beloved of God. I shall begin my history from the period at which his
terminates.237
| 237 The last event mentioned by Eusebius is the defeat of Licinius,
who was put to death a.d. 324. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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