PAMPHILUS, a benevolent promoter of learning in the early church, is said to have been born at Berytus in the latter half of the third century. After studying under Pierius at Alexandria, he settled as a presbyter at Cæsarea in Palestine, and began to devote his life to the advancement of Scriptural knowledge. He formed a valuable ecclesiastical library, founded a theological school, and multiplied the copies of the Holy Scriptures. At the same time, all these appliances were used by him with the most liberal-minded philanthropy. All who were animated by a love for sacred learning were kindly welcomed into his library or his school; and all the poor who were eager to read the Divine word for themselves, were presented with a copy of the Bible from his hands. This self-sacrificing life was nobly brought to a close in 309 by a brave endurance of the pains of martyrdom. Pamphilus was the author of an Apology for Origen, in five books, a work which was continued by his pupil and admirer Eusebius in a sixth book. The first book alone is extant in a Latin version by Rufinus, and has been inserted in Delarue's edition of Origen.