Read two books of Eusebius’s _Refutation and Defence_, and a
second edition of the same, which, while differing in certain
passages, agrees in other respects in both style and sentiments
with the first. He mentions certain difficulties brought forward
by the heathen against our blameless religion, and solves them
satisfactorily, though not entirely. His style is neither agreeable
nor brilliant; however, he is a man of great learning, although
wanting in the shrewdness and firmness of character so necessary
for the accurate discussion of questions of dogma. In many passages
he utters blasphemies against the Son, calling him second cause,
commander-in-chief, and other excrescences of Arian madness. It is
evident that he flourished during the reign of Constantine the Great.
He was an ardent admirer of the virtuous saint and martyr Pamphilus,
from whom he took his surname.