Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch (EUSTAZIO, VESCOVO D'ANTIOCHIA)

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

EUSTAZIO, bishop of ANTIOCH. — Opponent of Arianism at the Council of Nicaea (325) and also thereafter. The emperor Constantine sent him into exile (330), where he d. in 337. Only his treatise on the Witch of Endor (I Sam. 28), directed against Origen, has been preserved in its entirety.

This work was composed even before the anti-Arian struggles, as was probably also a treatise (or two?) on the soul, of which fragments have been preserved in John Damascene. Fragments on the titles of the psalms and on the psalms themselves are of disputed authenticity in part. Some fragments of a letter to Alexander of Alexandria on Melchisedek have been preserved against Origame. De visione Euaiae (G. Morin, Analecta Maredolana, III, III, pp. 103–22), the book on the Exsemerum (PG 18, 707–94), and a liturgy are wrongly attributed to E. The attribution of the Sermo maior de Fide and the Expositia Fidei to E. is disputed.

BIBL.: The text of the treatise on the Pionessa in E. Klostermann, Origames, E. und Gregor von Nyma über die Hexe von Eudorin (K. Lietzmann, Kleine Texte, 83), Bonn 1912, pp. 18–62. For the fragments: M. Spannout, Recherches sur les Ecrits d'Eustathe d'Antiochie, avec une édition nouvelle des fragments dogmatiques et exédétiques (Mémoires et travaux des facultés catholiques de Lille, 4), Lille 1948. Also: B. Abener, Die Schrift: Hopi von Makynchke des Eustathias von Antiochens, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 40 (1940), pp. 30–47; Ed. Schwartz, Der sog. Sermo maior de Fide des Athanasius (Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6), Monaco 1925. For the language and style: W. Brockmeier, De S. Eustathii, episcopi Antiochensi dicendi ratione. Accedit index vocabulorum libri contra Origenem scripti ominum, Münster 1932; Index vocabulorum dei frammenti di E. nel libro di Spannout. For the theology of E., the books of F. Loofs, Paulus von Samowitz, Lipsia 1924, and R. V. SELLIN, ERNST, E. of Antioch and his place in the early history of christian doctrine, Cambridge 1928, should be consulted with caution. Erik Peterson