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The Ecclesiastical History, Vols. 1 and 2: English Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, gave the church one of its greatest gifts by chronicling the rise of Christianity until the fourth century in The Ecclesiastical History. This resource contains the English translation from both volumes in the Loeb edition. Volume 1 contains Books I–V and covers the history of the church from the days of the apostles until the beginning of the second century AD....

implied by his name,1 which was gained by the martyrs of Christ found worthy of victory. [2] At that same time also James, who was called the brother of the Lord, inasmuch as the latter too was styled the child of Joseph, and Joseph was called the father of Christ, for the Virgin was betrothed to him when,* before they came together, she was discovered to have conceived by the Holy Spirit, as the sacred writing of the Gospels teaches—this same James, to whom the men of old had also given the surname
Volume 1, Page 105