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Rufinus of Aquileia’s History of the Church, published in 402 or 403, is a translation and continuation of that of Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius’s history tells the story of Christianity from its beginning down to the year 325; Rufinus carries the story forward to 395, the year of the death of Theodosius I. Rufinus demonstrates both a superb understanding of Eusebius’s text and a tendency to...

return of his powerful patroness Melania in 400, the succession of Innocent I in 402 following the death of Anastasius, and the new antipathy many people felt for the anti-Origenist party due to the exile of John Chrysostom, the most celebrated victim of Theophilus’s campaign against the Origenist monks. It cannot be proved beyond all objection that he left Aquileia before 407, but the circumstantial evidence is strong.3 The years 403–406, at any rate, saw him back at work on translations of Origen:
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