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First Series of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Library of the
Christian Fathers, containing, in fourteen volumes, the principal works
of St. Augustin and St. Chrysostom, has been completed in less than
four years, according to the Prospectus of the Publisher issued in
1886.
I am happy to state that the
Second Series, containing the chief works of the Fathers from Eusebius
to John of Damascus, and from Ambrose to Gregory the Great, will be
issued on the same liberal terms, as announced by the
Publisher.
The present volume opens the
Second Series with a new translation and critical commentary of the
historical works of Eusebius, by my friends, Dr. Arthur C. McGiffert
and Dr. Ernest C. Richardson, who have bestowed a vast amount of labor
of love on their tasks for several years past. I desired them to make
these works a reliable and tolerably complete Church History of the
first three centuries for the English reader. I think they have
succeeded. Every scholar will at once see the great value and
superiority of this over every other previous edition of
Eusebius.
The next two volumes will
contain the Church Histories of Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and
Evagrius. For further details the reader is referred to the
Publisher’s announcement at the end of this volume.