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Eusebius of Vercelli (283-371 AD)...............................................................................................................79
De Trinitate Book 10, PL 62.237-334 (circa 350-450 AD) .........................................................................188
Eusebius of Vercelli (d. 371) Three letters written during his exile are extant.
The first seven books of De Trinitate, long
attributed to Athanasius or Bishop Vigilius of Thapsus, are
generally accepted as Eusebius’s work. (Eusebius of Vercelli
(2018) Encyclopaedia Britannica. Revised and edited by Melissa Petruzzello, Assistant Editor.
<
www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Eusebius-of-Vercelli>.)
[Kuper] De Trinitate, Eusebius of Vercelli: Nearly every aspect of this De Trinitate, a dialogue of which two recensions
are extant, has been the subject of disagreement. Although it was traditionally attributed to Vigilius of Thapsus or
Athanasius, Vincent Bulhart in the middle of the twentieth century reintroduced the possibility of Eusebian authorship and
defended it in his critical edition of the text (Bulhart, Eusebii Vercellensis, vii–xxviii), and this position was independently
supported by D.H. Williams (Williams, Ambrose of Milan, 1995, p. 96–102, and 239–242.). Though many manuscripts and
[PAGE 60] compilations contain a text of twelve libelli, only the first seven are original and authentically Eusebian. (Kuper,
Latin Controversial Dialogues, 2017, p. 59-60)
[Williams] Appendix III. Eusebian Authorship of De trinitate, I-VII. With the publication of the CCSL ix edition (Turnhout,
1957), Bulhart revived the idea, as advanced in the beginning of the seventeenth century by Jean Etienne Ferreri and
later expounded by Morin ("Les Douze Livres sur la Trinite", RB 15 (1898), 1-10), of Eusebian authorship for the first
seven books of De trinitate. ...[PAGE 240] With regards to the to authorship, Bulhart's suggestion that there was one
author for books I-VII, a probably different writer of book VIII, and an unknown redactor for all eight books (Praefatio, pp.
xxxiii-xxxiv) has received little opposition. Was Eusebius of Vercelli the author of the original seven books? Apart from the
problems of chronology, the strongest objections leveled against Eusebian authorship are those which attempt to argue
that the work originated from Spain and/ or from the pen of a Luciferian. It can be shown, however, that such arguments
have virtually no substance, and it is just as possible that the De trinitate was written in the south or north Italy.
The actual
evidence which has been advanced for Eusebian authorship is admittedly slight and inconclusive. We cannot hope to
solve all the problems of authorship here, but a few additional points can be made. First is the general [PAGE 241]
observation that there is nothing in the De trinitate which Eusebius could not have said. Another way to say this is to ask
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Returning to the Reply to Damasus, the key question, if it is a later document, is why it is referred to as having Priscillianist authorship Grantley The same symbolum could be used by Priscillian or the Panchristian author of the Reply to Pope Damasus to show that the three persons of the Trinity are one God, and that this one God is Jesus Christ. p. 39 Grantley could have mixed it up, but the question stands for now
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If there is a reason for the Priscillian connection, that supports the Damasus connection, if that is a false connection, not matching the text, then the Damasus name could easily be as you said, simply a later add-on
Hi Mike, I just noticed that the Book One of the Trinity, ascribed to Eusebius Vercelli by many, actually has three distinct HITS, 1:50 1:55 1:69 .. although 1:55 is not quite as strong. Do you agree that there are three refs by Vercelli (if he is the author)
Yes you do have that on p. 81-82 .. however you then go into Book V. and Book VII as well .. so they are being listed under the Eusebius section, rather than as a 400s distinct writer. There is also Book X on p. 10- that you do separate into "De Trinitate Book 10, PL 62.237-334 (circa 350-450 AD) " so should Book V and Book VII have similar type of placement as Book 10, away from Eusebius?
- correction Book X on p. 90
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And is De Trinitate those last three books 5 7 10, placed before or after Carthage? You have only up to 450 AD but they could be later in the 400s? The 350 is early it seems.
- View Steve
Am I correct that the argument against Vercelli is that the Christology is early for such a high view of the Holy Spirit, the counter-argument is that this text shows it is not too early.