Eusebius of Caesarea: source notes

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Topic: icons

See icons reasoning.

ICO S1: Letter to Constantia

• Source: (not located)
• Text: Reported refusal to send an image of Christ. Survives only in iconoclast florilegia and the acts of Nicaea II (to verify).
• Context: Authenticity disputed.
• Bears on: I3
• Status: to verify

Doctrine T15

See T15 reasoning.

T15 S1: Church History V.24.16

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250105.htm (public-domain English translation)
• Text: “For neither could Anicetus persuade Polycarp not to observe what he had always observed with John the disciple of our Lord, and the other apostles with whom he had associated; neither could Polycarp persuade Anicetus to observe it as he said that he ought to follow the customs of the presbyters that had preceded him.”
• Context: Quoting Irenaeus.
• Bears on: T15.1
• Status: verified (English)