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Eusebius' "Theology of Persecution": As Seen in the Various Editions of His Church History

There may never have been a first edition of Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiastica [HE], if by “first edition” is meant a completed work in seven books, copied and circulated before the outbreak of the so-called “Great Persecution” in February 303.1 That there was such an edition, as first suggested by R. Laqueur2 and expounded most forcefully by T. D. Barnes,3 is not to be ruled out altogether, but the evidence for the existence of such an edition is not quite as convincing as was once thought to be the case.4 Rather than there having been in existence a “published” edition of the HE as early as the last decade of the third century, it is more likely that, at the time when Eusebius first learned of the events which had occurred in Nicomedia on February 23, 303, he had composed almost seven books of an, as yet, unfinished draft of the HE.5 This draft had,