Section 15
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Viu LIFE OF EUSEBIUS. phrases, the creatures of his lips, and no proof of the feelings of his heart. I remember, however, in \v"hat a satisfactory manner, I have heard with you, his solemn asseveration, that there was not one thing on his tongue and another in his heart." Shortly after, he says : (" But now on account of the memory and honour of this our father, so good, so laborious, and so vigilant for the church, let these facts be briefly stated by us. For we have not mentioned yet his family, his education or learning, nor narrated the other incidents of his life, and its leading or principal object" j These passages in Eusebius were pointed out to us by the most learned Franciscus Ogerius. Hence it may be satisfactorily inferred, that it was not any family alliance, but the bond of amity that connected Eusebius with Pamphius. Eusebius, though he mentions Pamphilus so frequently, and boasts so highly of his friendship, yet never speaks of him as a relative. The testimony of Eusebius alone is sufficient to decide that Pamphilus, though his friend, was not his kinsman. Since in the close of his Seventh Book of Ecclesiastic History, where he is making mention of Agapius, bishop of Caesarea, he says : " In his time, we became acquainted with Pamphilus, a most eloquent man, and in his life and practices truly a philosopher,! and in the same church, ennobled with the honour of the presbytery." Since " Propositum" is the word employed by Valesius, doubtless in that accepta tion in which its precise sense is so easily appreciated by the classic reader in Horace, Car. lib. iii. ode iii. line i.