Primary source · Latin
Eusebius of Vercelli, the Letters
Eusebius of Vercelli · AD 354–363
What this text is
Three letters of the confessor who would not sign at Milan in 355: to Constantius before the storm, and from Scythopolis under Arian house-arrest — 'dragged through the streets, my lodging my prison' — smuggled out to his flock. The first monastic bishop of the West, surviving in his own small file.
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Public-domain translations
Working translation (from the Latin, CCSL 9)
They dragged me through the streets... yet I write to you, beloved, that the faith of Nicaea is kept unbroken; keep it with me by your prayers. (Letter 2, from exile, condensed)
Manuscript witnesses
Early medieval Latin tradition (with the Vercelli archives)
9th c. onwardA local file preserved by his own church; the famous 4th-c. Codex Vercellensis gospel book is by tradition his — noted, not asserted, as autograph.
CCSL 9 (Bulhart)
1957The standard text of the three letters.
Provenance
Vercelli, Milan, and the eastern exile
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Eusebii Vercellensis opera (CCSL 9)V. Bulhart (ed.), 1957Critical edition.
- The Search for the Christian Doctrine of GodR. P. C. Hanson, 1988The Milan 355 crisis and the exiles, critically weighed.