Eusebius of Caesarea — Church History 18

1. This writer has left us a great many monuments of a mind educated and practiced in divine things, which are replete with profitable matter of every kind. To them we shall refer the studious, noting as we proceed those that have come to our knowledge .

2. There is a certain discourse of his in defense of our doctrine addressed to Antoninus surnamed the Pious , and to his sons, and to the Roman senate. Another work contains his second Apology in behalf of our faith , which he offered to him who was the successor of the emperor mentioned and who bore the same name, Antoninus Verus , the one whose times we are now recording.

3. Also another work against the Greeks, in which he discourses at length upon most of the questions at issue between us and the Greek philosophers , and discusses the nature of demons . It is not necessary for me to add any of these things here.

4. And still another work of his against the Greeks has come down to us, to which he gave the title Refutation. And besides these another, On the Sovereignty of God, which he establishes not only from our Scriptures, but also from the books of the Greeks.