Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History 2.3.3
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τὴν Παλαιστινῶν Καισάρειαν

, and

Palestinian Caesarea

are directly attested at Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History 2.3.3. This passage was written ca. 312 - 324 CE possibly in Caesarea.

ἀλλὰ γὰρ τῆς χάριτος ἤδη τῆς θείας καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ λοιπὰ χεομένης ἔθνη, καὶ πρώτου μὲν κατὰ τὴν Παλαιστινῶν Καισάρειαν Κορνηλίου σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ δι ἐπιφανείας θειοτέρας ὑπουργίας τε Πέτρου τὴν εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν πίστιν καταδεξαμένου, πλείστων τε καὶ ἄλλων ἐπ Ἀντιοχείας Ἑλλήνων, οἷς οἱ κατὰ τὸν Στεφάνου διωγμὸν διασπαρέντες ἐκήρυξαν, ἀνθούσης ἄρτι καὶ πληθυούσης τῆς κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν ἐκκλησίας, ἐν ταὐτῷ τε ἐπιπαρόντων πλείστων ὅσων τῶν τε ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων προφητῶν, καὶ σὺν αὐτοῖς Βαρνάβα καὶ Παύλου, ἑτέρου τε πλήθους ἐπὶ τούτοις ἀδελφῶν, ἡ Χριστιανῶν προσηγορία τότε πρῶτον αὐτόθι ὥσπερ ἀπ εὐθαλοῦς καὶ γονίμου πηγῆς ἀναδίδοται.

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2018.tlg002.1st1K-grc2:2.3

But indeed it was when the grace of God was already being poured out even on the other nations — when faith in Christ had been received, first by Cornelius with all his house in Palestinian Caesarea through divine manifestation and the ministration of Peter, and also by many other Greeks in Antioch, to whom those preached who had been scattered in the persecution over Stephen, and the Church in Antioch was already flourishing and multiplying — it was at that moment and in that place, when so many of the prophets from Jerusalem were also present, and with them Barnabas and Paul, and a number of the other brethren besides them, that the title of "Christians" was first given, as from a fresh and life-giving fountain.

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2018.tlg002.1st1K-eng1:2.3 [Translation corrected and adapted from its source.] [Inaccuracies found in the transcription of the electronic text compared to its printed source have been corrected.]

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