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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

“For there is neither law, nor any one ordinance superior to erudition; nor is it just, …

“For there is neither law, nor any one ordinance superior to erudition; nor is it just, that the mind be subservient or subjected to any thing: it is, on the contrary, Prince of all, if indeed it be free in its nature.” This same too, is he who said, that “Wheresoever a man places himself, thinking it to be best, there he ought, as I think, to remain, (even) in the storm; making no account of any thing, neither of death, nor of any other thing, before things hateful.” He also said afterwards; “For this, that one should fear death, O men, would be nothing else, but that we should suppose him to be wise when he is not so.”