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Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History, Books I–X

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Book VII — Introduction.

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Book VII.

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Introduction.

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In this seventh book of the Church History, the great bishop of Alexandria, Dionysius, [1] shall again assist us by his own words; relating the several affairs of his time in the epistles which he has left. I will begin with them.