In Old Times

Eusebius, the father of church history, lived at the time of the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century. As he brings together all the material he can find about the history of the church, he talks about Clement of Rome, bishop at the end of the first century.

(Hist. Eccl., iii. 16): "There is one acknowledged Epistle of this Clement (whom Eusebius has just identified with the friend of St. Paul), great and admirable, which he wrote in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth, sedition having then arisen in the latter Church. We are aware that this Epistle has been publicly read in very many churches both in old times, and also in our own day."

I can't help but smile at the way he distinguishes between Clement's time and the present as "old times" and "our own day."