EUSEBIUS OF ALEXANDRIA: An author to
whom are attributed certain extant homilies which
enjoyed some renown in the Eastern Church in the
sixth and seventh centuries. Their homiletical
merit does not rise above mediocrity, and nothing
is known of the author. At all events, he was not
a patriarch of Alexandria, as is affirmed in as
early biography (
MPG, lxxxvi. 1, pp. 297-310),
written by one Johannes, a notary, and stating
that Euisebius was called by Cyril to be his
successor in the episcopate. The discourses belong
probably to the fifth or sixth century, and possibly
originated in Alexandria. They deal with the life
of the Lord and with questions of ecclesiastical
life and practise, which they resolve in a
monastic-ascetic way. Their literary character is not quite
clear; while most of them are adapted for public
delivery, not a few bear the character of
ecclesiastical pronouncements. They are printed in
MPG, lxxxvi. 1, pp. 287-482, 509-536, except four
included among Chrysostom's works. The
fragments preserved in the so-called
Sacra parallela
are to be found in K. Hall's
Fragmente
vornicanischer Kirchenvater (
T U,
new series, v. 2, Leipsic,
1899), pp. 314-332. A homily concerning the
observance of Sunday is attributed by Zahn (see
below) to Eusebius of Emesa.
Note that Eusebius of Alexandria is not the
well-known historian of the
Christian church, which is
Eusebius of Caesarea.
Initial text from Schaff-Herzog Encyc of Religion
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