Not only that, but in
his oration 'In Praise of Constantine', Eusebius says that
[God] it is who appoints him this present festival, in that he has made him victorious over every enemy that disturbed
his peace: he it is who displays him as an example of true godliness to the human race. And thus our emperor, like the radiant sun, illuminates the most distant subjects of
his empire through the presence of the Caesars, as with the far piercing rays of
his own brightness. To us who occupy the eastern regions he has given a son worthy of himself; a second and a third respectively to other departments of
his empire, to be, as it were, brilliant reflectors of the light which proceeds from himself. Once more, having harnessed, as it were, under the self-same yoke the four most noble Caesars as horses in the imperial
chariot, he sits on high and directs their course by the reins of holy
harmony and concord; and, himself every where present, and observant of every event, thus traverses every region of the world. Lastly, invested as he is with a semblance of heavenly sovereignty, he directs
his gaze above, and frames
his earthly government according to the pattern of that Divine original, feeling strength in its conformity to the monarchy of God.
He might just as well name him
Constantinus Epiphanes, since
his language is that of divine kingship, and he goes so far as to place him in Apollo's
chariot, shining like the sun.
