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Eusebius Pamphilii of Caesarea Demonstratio evangelica Tr. W.J. Ferrar (1920) I IntraText Edition CT Copyright Èulogos 2007 - See also: Credits

IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. Help: Overview - Text & search - Lists - Concordances - Glossary - For easier reading... - Table of Contents - See also: Index of footnotes Statistics and graphs (Occurrences: 196514. Words: 9679) PREFACE CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION § I. OBJECT AND OCCASION § 2. THE DATE § 3. CONTENTS § 4. RELATION TO EARLIER APOLOGIES § 5. THE ARGUMENT OK THE THIRD BOOK § 6. THE CHRISTOLOGY OF EUSEBIUS §7. THE REFERENCES TO THE EUCHARIST IN THE DEMONSTRATIO § 8. MSS., ETC. LIST OF CHAPTERS The Contents of the First Book of the Proof of the Gospel of Our Saviour EUSEBIUS: SON OF PAMPHILUS THE PROOF OF THE GOSPEL BOOK 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 The Object and Contents of the Work. CHAPTER 2 The Character of the Christian Religion. CHAPTER 3 That the System of Moses was not Suitable for All Nations. CHAPTER 4 Why it is we reject the Jews' Way of Life, though we accept their Writings. CHAPTER 5 The Character of the New Covenant of Christ. CHAPTER 6 The Nature of the Life according to the New Covenant proclaimed to All Men by Christ. CHAPTER 7 How Christ, having first fulfilled the Law of Moses, became the Introducer of a New and Fresh System. CHAPTER 8 That the Christian Life is of Two Distinct Characters. CHAPTER 9 Why a Numerous Offspring is not as Great a Concern to us as it was to them of Old Time. CHAPTER 10 Why we are not bidden to burn Incense and to sacrifice the Fruits of the Earth to God as were the Men of Old Time. BOOK II. PREFACE CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 BOOK III CHAPTER 1 That the Prophets made Mention of the Gospel of the Christ. CHAPTER 2 That the Hebrew Prophets prophesied of Christ. CHAPTER 3 Addressed to those that suppose that the Christ of God was a Deceiver. CHAPTER 4 Of the Diviner Works of Christ. CHAPTER 5 Against those that disbelieve the Account of Our Saviour's Miracles given by His Disciples. CHAPTER 6 Against Those who think that the Christ of God was a Sorcerer. CHAPTER 7 Oracles about Christ. BOOK IV CHAPTER 1 Of the Mystical Dispensation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus, (144) the Christ of God. CHAPTER 2 That we hold that the Son of God was before the Whole Creation. CHAPTER 3 That we rightly teach that there are not many sons of the Supreme God, but One only, God of God. CHAPTER 4 That the Only-begotten Son of God must be considered necessarily Anterior to the Whole Universe. CHAPTER 5 That we hold that there are Numberless Divine Created Powers but One Alone of the Son, whereby We describe Him as the Image of God the. Father. CHAPTER 6 That from the First Constitution of the Universe the Christ of God has been the Invisible Guardian of Godly Souls. CHAPTER 7 That to the Hebrews alone of Old was the Knowledge of the True God revealed, being known by the Manifestation of the Christ. CHAPTER 8 That the Other Nations, assigned to Certain Angels, worshipped only the Stars of Heaven. CHAPTER 9 Of the Hostile Power opposed to God, and of its Ruler, and how the Whole Race of Mankind was in Subjection thereto. CHAPTER 10 That the Only-begotten Son of God made His Entry among Mankind of Necessity. CHAPTER 11 That He passed through the Life of Men. (d) CHAPTER 12 That the Laws of Loving-kindness called Him even to them that had been long dead. CHAPTER 13 That even when He was made Man, He remained in the Nature that cannot suffer, or be harmed, or embodied. CHAPTER 14 That renewing Humanity He afforded to us all the Hope of Eternal Good. CHAPTER 15 What the Advent of Christ is meant to shew forth, and that (171) He is called God and Lord and High Priest of the God of the Universe by the Hebrew Prophets. CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 That the Name of Jesus was also honoured among the Ancient Friends of God. BOOK V INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 That the Most Wise Solomon in the Proverbs knew of a Firstborn Power of God, which He calls the Wisdom and Offspring of God: just as we glorify It. CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 (d) That the same Prophet also plainly confesses Two Lords in Ps. cix.: the One, the First and Highest God; the Other, Whom He calls His Own Lord, and that He was begotten by God before the Foundation of the World, and He knows the Second God, and that He is the High Priest Eternal of the Father, shares the Throne of the God of the Universe, holding the same Faith as We about Christ. CHAPTER 4 That Isaiah also the Greatest of the Prophets dearly knew Him to be God in God, agreeing in His Words with Us Who glorify the Father in the Son, and the Son in the Father. CHAPTER 5 Psalm xxxii. How David equally with Us knows the Word of God, Who is of His Essence, to be by the Command of the Father Creator of All Things; and how the Same Prophet witnesses that the Same Word of God was sent by the Father for the Saving of Men, and how He prophesies that in a Short Time the Whole World would be filled by His Teaching. (d) CHAPTER 6 That Isaiah, as well as David, acknowledges Two Lords, and the (231) Second, as in David, is the Creator, as We also confess. CHAPTER 7 From Genesis. That Moses, God's Greatest Servant, knows the Father and God of the Universe to have been associated with Another in the Creation of Man: And that. We have learned already that this Being was the Divine Word. CHAPTER 8 From the same. That Moses clearly without Veil reveals God to be Two Lords CHAPTER 9 From the same. That the Same Servant of God shews a Second Being called God and Lord, and relates that He was seen in Human Shape and Form and answered Them of Old Time. CHAPTER 10 From the same. That the same Prophet shews more clearly in the Matter of Jacob the said Person to be Lord, Whom also He calls God, and an Angel of God Most High, in addressing Him. CHAPTER 11 That Jacob also beholds the Before-named as Both God and Lord, and also as an Angel in Human Form in Common with Abraham, in the Course of the History that so tells. CHAPTER 12 (d) Thai again in the Story of Jacob the Story supposes a Secondary God. CHAPTER 13 From Exodus. That the Almighty God, being He that answered Moses by an Angel, teaches that He was seen by the Fathers, not by means of an Angel, but by His Son. CHAPTER 14 (b) That God the Word appeared in the Form of a Cloud to Moses and All the People, as in Human Form to the Patriarchs. CHAPTER 15 (242) That it was not an Angel, who gave Answers to Moses, but Some One More Excellent than an Angel. CHAPTER 16 (d) That the same Lord teaches of another Lord, namely, His Son. (243) CHAPTER 17 That this Lord again Who gave Answers to Moses, knowing another Lord Greater than Himself as Father, called Him the True God. CHAPTER 18 From Numbers. That Holy Scripture teaches that God was seen by Israel, darkly meaning the Word of God. CHAPTER 19 (246) From Joshua, the son of Nave. That God the Word, Who answered Moses, appeared also to the Forefathers of Old Time, and to Joshua, Moses' Successor, in Human Form. CHAPTER 20 How the Creator of the Universe, the Word of God, answered Job, and is said to have appeared to Him, just as He (b) did to the Fathers. CHAPTER 21 From Psalm xc. That this Psalm knows Two Lords. CHAPTER 22 From Hosea. About the Word of God and about the Father, as about a Lord. CHAPTER 23 (250) From Amos. (b) Of Our Saviour as of a Lord, and of His Father as of God, and. of the Destruction of the Jewish People. CHAPTER 24 (251) From Obadiah. Of the Two Lords, Father and Son, and of the Call (b) of the Gentiles. CHAPTER 25 From Zechariah. That God the Word being Lord confesses that He was sent (c) by a Greater Lord. CHAPTER 26 The same, and concerning the Call of the Gentiles. CHAPTER 27 How again the Lord narrates concerning another Lord, and this is clearly His Father. (253) CHAPTER 28 (b) From Malachi. That the Almighty God calls the Angel of the Covenant Christ, and the same Being Lord. CHAPTER 29 That the God of the Universe names Christ the Sun of Righteousness. CHAPTER 30 From Jeremiah. That God the Word, being Lord, prays to His Father, prophesying the Conversion of the Gentiles. BOOK VI CHAPTER 1 (238) Of the Sojourn of the Word of God with Men. From Psalm xvii. The Shewing forth of the Coming of God to Men, and the Consequent Call of the Gentiles. CHAPTER 2 Psalm xlvi. The Ascent of God Who had First descended, and the Calling of all the Gentiles thereafter, to know the One and Only God. CHAPTER 3 From Psalm xlix. How it is said that God will come dearly to Men, and will call all Races of Men io Himself. CHAPTER 4 From Psalm lxxxiii. That God is said to be about to be seen on Earth through the Manifestation of the Christ to Men. CHAPTER 5 From Psalm xcv. The Coining of Christ on Earth, and His Kingdom over the Gentiles, and the New Song which shall be given, not to Israel but to the Gentiles. (c) CHAPTER 6 From Psalm xcvii. The New Song, the Knowledge of the Heathen of the Lord's Righteousness and His Own Coming as Judge of the Universe. CHAPTER 7 From Psalm cvii. The Word of God sent forth for the Healing and Salvation of Souls Long Time afflicted with Evil. CHAPTER 8 From Psalms cxvii. and cxviii. The Calling of the Gentiles, God Manifested, and Pressed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord. CHAPTER 9 From Psalm cxliii. The Descent of the Lord from Heaven for Men's Salvation, (d) and the New Song sung thereafter, which is the Song of the New Covenant. CHAPTER 10 (d) From Psalm cxlvii. The Word of God sent on Earth, and in a Short Time running through All Nations. CHAPTER 11 From the Second Book of Kings [= 2 Samuel]. (c) The Lord descending from Heaven, Leader of the Nations that before knew Him not, and about to cast off the Jewish Nation. CHAPTER 12 From the Third Book of Kings [ = First Book of Kings]. God descending from Heaven, and dwelling with Men on Earth. CHAPTER 13 From Micah. Concerning the Descent from Heaven to Men, and concerning the Fall of the Jewish Nation at His Coming, and the Incorporation of All the Other Nations. CHAPTER 14 From Habakkuk. That it was prophesied that the Word of God that cometh will come and will not tarry. CHAPTER 15 From the same. That the Heating about the Descent of the Lord from Heaven is Terrible, and His Works Wonderful, and at His Coming the Whole Earth shall be filed with His Praise, when the Word of His New Covenant shall pervade all Men. CHAPTER 16 From Zechariah. That the Almighty Lord states that He is sent by Another Almighty Lord for the Destruction of the Wicked. CHAPTER 17 From the same. How the Lord foretells that He will come from Heaven and dwell among Men, and that the Nations will flee to Him, and He states that the was sent by Another Almighty Lord stronger than Himself. CHAPTER 18 From the same. Of the Coming of the Lord, and of the Events of His Passion. CHAPTER 19 From Baruch. It is prophesied that the God of the Prophets, having laid down the Complete Way of Knowledge by the Mosaic Law to the Jews, will some Day afterwards be seen on Earth, and mingle among Men. CHAPTER 20 From Isaiah. It is prophesied that the Christ will come into Egypt, and What Things will come to pass at His Coming. (d) CHAPTER 21 From the same. A Promise of Good Things to the Church of the Gentiles, that before was deserted, and to Sick Souls the Manifest (c) Presence of God, and Marvellous Saving Acts. CHAPTER 22 From the same. How the First and Everlasting Word of God, the Creator of (302) the Universe, confesses that He is even now sent by the (b) Lord His Father. CHAPTER 23 From the same. How the Lord rebukes the Jewish People, because They will not receive Him when He comes, nor hear His Call, and what He will suffer at Their Hands. CHAPTER 24 From the same. How the Same Lord that spake in the Prophets will come Among Men and be seen by Their Eyes, and be known to the Gentiles. CHAPTER 25 From the same. How, again, the Coming of God the Word and the Gathering of All Nations is foretold. BOOK VII CHAPTER 1 (b) From Isaiah. The Manner of the Lord's Stay among Men. CHAPTER 2 From Micah. (341) Of the Place of the Birth of the God fore-announced, and how He will come forth from Bethlehem, a Town of Palestine, being from Eternity, as Governor of the Race of the Holy, and how it is foretold that the Lord will feed them that have believed in Him unto the Ends of the Earth. CHAPTER 3 From the Second Book of Chronicles. From what Race and from what Hebrew Tribe it was foretold that the Christ should come. BOOK VIII INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 (366) Of the Time of His Appearance among Men. How at the Time which the Hebrews fail of their Kingdom, the Expectation of the Gentiles shall approach, which also came to pass at Our Saviour's Appearing. From Genesis. CHAPTER 2 From Daniel. How after the Period of Seven Times Seventy Years, or 490 Years, the Christ having appeared to Men, the Jewish Prophets and their surpassing Temple Worship will be dissolved, and They Themselves will be taken by Mutual Sieges as by a Flood, and their Holy Temple undergo its Final Desolation. CHAPTER 3 From Micah. The Prophet foretells what will be the Signs of the Coming of the Lord to Men, the Complete Destruction of the Sacred Customs of the Jews, the Knowledge of the God that was announced by the Prophets, the Deepest Peace of All Nations. CHAPTER 4 From Zechariah. Signs of the Time of the Coming of the Word of God to Men, the Call of the Gentiles, and Final Destruction of Jerusalem. CHAPTER 5 From Isaiah. The Signs of the Times of the Lord's Coming, and the Egyptians' Acknowledgment of the God of the Prophets. BOOK IX CHAPTER 1 Of the Things that happened at the Incarnation, and of the Star that appeared at Our Saviour's Birth. CHAPTER 2 From Isaiah. How the Lord resting in the Sacred Body which He took from the Virgin will come to Egypt, is both Literally and Figuratively foretold, and that all the Superstition of the Heathen will be destroyed at His Advent. CHAPTER 3 From Numbers. It is foretold that Christ would come into Egypt, and would return from thence again. CHAPTER 4 From Hosea. Again concerns the Words, Out of Egypt have I Called My Son, and King Herod, and the Destruction of the Kingdom of the Jews. CHAPTER 5 From Isaiah. Of the Preaching of John in the Wilderness. CHAPTER 6 From the same. Still concerning the Wilderness, and the River called Jordan, by which John baptized. CHAPTER 7 From Psalm xc. (433) Of the Temptation of Our Lord After His Baptism. CHAPTER 8 From Isaiah. Of Galilee of the Gentiles, where our Saviour worked most of His Miracles, and of the Call of His Apostles. CHAPTER 9 From Psalm lxvii. Of the Calling of the Apostles. (441) (442) CHAPTER 10 From Isaiah. Of the Reading from the Prophecy by Our Lord in the Jewish Synagogue. CHAPTER 11 From Deuteronomy. (c) Of the Lawgiving according to the Gospel of Christ. (446) CHAPTER 12 From Job. Of Christ walking on the Sea. CHAPTER 13 From Isaiah. Of the Miracles He Performed. CHAPTER 11 From the same. Of the Signs and Wonders which He worked. CHAPTER 15 From the same. Concerning Christs Reticence about His Miracles. (452) CHAPTER 16 (454) From the same. Of the Disbelief of the Jewish People in Him. CHAPTER 17 From Zechariah. How it is foretold that He should ride into Jerusalem on a Colt. CHAPTER 18 From Psalm cxvii. Of the Cry, Hosanna to the Son of David. BOOK X INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 From Psalm xl. Of Judas the Traitor, and His Fellow-Conspirators against Christ. CHAPTER 2 From Psalm liv. (471) Also of Judas, and of them that with Him conspired against Christ. CHAPTER 3 From Psalm cviii. Still of Judas, and of the Apostle elected in His Room, and of the Jewish Nation. CHAPTER 4 From Zechariah. Still of Judas, and of the Money in Return for which He betrayed the Lord, and of the casting away of the Jewish Race, both Rulers and Ruled. CHAPTER 5 From Jeremiah. Still of Judas, Who is named. CHAPTER 6 From Amos. Of the Eclipse of the Sun at the Time of Our Saviour's Passion, and of the Total Destruction of the Jewish Nation. CHAPTER 7 (b) From Zechariah. Still concerning the Eclipse of the Sun, and of the Time of the Saving Passion. CHAPTER 8 From Psalm xxi. Of What was done at Our Saviour's Passion. At the End concerning His being succoured in the Morning. A FRAGMENT OF THE FIFTEENTH BOOK Credits Printed source TRANSLATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE. SERIES I. GREEK TEXTS GENERAL EDITORS : W. J. SPARROW-SIMPSON, D.D., W. K. LOWTHER CLARKE, B.D. The proof of the gospel being the demonstratio evangelica of Eusebius of Caesarea By W.J. FERRAR SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. London. The Macmillan Company. New York 1920 Source of the electronic transcription Tertullian Project – http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ Transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK, 2003. ETML tagging IntraText editorial staff Publication details Greek text is rendered using the Scholars Press SPIonic font, free from http://www.tertullian.org/support

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