Book VII

Church History (Historia Ecclesiastica) · Eusebius of Caesarea

1. Introduction.
2. The Wickedness of Decius and Gallus.
3. The Bishops of Rome in those Times.
4. Cyprian, and the Bishops with him, first taught that it was necessary to purify by Baptism those converted from Heresy.
5. The Epistles which Dionysius wrote on this Subject.
6. The Peace following the Persecution.
7. The Heresy of Sabellius.
8. The Abominable Error of the Heretics; the Divine Vision of Dionysius; and the Ecclesiastical Canon which he received.
9. The Heterodoxy of Novatus.
10. The Ungodly Baptism of the Heretics.
11. Valerian and the Persecution under him.
12. The Events which happened at this Time to Dionysius and those in Egypt.
13. The Martyrs in Cæsarea in Palestine.
14. The Peace under Gallienus.
15. The Bishops that flourished at that Time.
16. The Martyrdom of Marinus at Cæsarea.
17. Story in Regard to Astyrius.
18. The Signs at Paneas of the Great Might of our Saviour.
19. The Statue which the Woman with an Issue of Blood erected.
20. The Episcopal Chair of James.
21. The Festal Epistles of Dionysius, in which he also gives a Paschal Canon.
22. The Occurrences at Alexandria.
23. The Pestilence which came upon them.
24. The Reign of Gallienus.
25. Nepos and his Schism.
26. The Apocalypse of John.
27. The Epistles of Dionysius.
28. Paul of Samosata, and the Heresy introduced by him at Antioch.
29. The Illustrious Bishops of that Time.
30. Paul, having been refuted by Malchion, a Presbyter from the Sophists, was excommunicated.
31. The Epistle of the Bishops against Paul.
32. The Perversive Heresy of the Manicheans which began at this Time.
33. The Distinguished Ecclesiastics of our Day, and which of them survived until the Destruction of the Churches.