Encomium on the Martyrs
Eusebius of Caesarea (260–339)
Journal of Sacred Literature 4th series 5 (1864) pp. 403-408
THE ENCOMIUM OF THE MARTYRS.
AN INEDITED ORATION or EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA.--Syriac text.
[THE following short oration is found near the end (fol. 250 rect.) of the venerable volume from which, at different times, there have been printed:
1. The Recognitions of Clement.
2. Titus of Bostra against the Manicheans.
3. The Theophany of Eusebius.
4. The Martyrs of Palestine, also by Eusebius.
This last was published by Dr. Cureton in 1861 ; but it is singular that the learned editor, whose premature decease all Orientalists deplore, made no allusion to the Encomium, which |404 has been detected by Dr. W. Wright during his labours as curator of the Syriac MSS. in the British Museum. The same gentleman has also called our attention to an unfortunately imperfect list of early martyrs following this oration, and forming the actual conclusion of the volume (Add. MS. 12,150). We cannot say whether Eusebius is the writer of this venerable martyrology, but it must be older than the MS. in which we find it,--the oldest dated Syriac MS. in our Museum (written A.D. 411). Those who possess Dr. Cureton's Martyrs of Palestine, will welcome the…
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