Demonstratio evangelica



  • INTRODUCTION
    • § I. OBJECT AND OCCASION

p. viii
1. [1] Gifford, Praeparatio Evangelica, p. i. a, hereafter often cited as G.P.E.
2. [2] G.P.E., p. 3 b.
3. [3] G.P.E., p. 3 c.

p. xi
4. [1] Lightfoot, D.C.B. ii. 329.
5. [2] Ibid. 331.


  • INTRODUCTION
    • § 5. THE ARGUMENT OK THE THIRD BOOK

p. xx
6. [1] Cambridge Theological Essays (London 1906), p. 350.
7. [1] J. F. Bethune-Baker, "Christian Doctrines and their Ethical Significance," in Cambridge Theological Essays (Lon[...]


  • INTRODUCTION
    • § 6. THE CHRISTOLOGY OF EUSEBIUS
8. [2] C. Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria.
9. [1] Christologies, Ancient and Modern, p. 40.
10. [2] Stanley, Eastern Church, iii. 80.
11. [3] History of Dogma, iii. 136 (note).
12. [1] W. Bright, Church of the Fathers, i. vi. 88. The creed is given. Theodoret, H. E. i. 1.
13. [1] Theodoret, H.E. i. 12.


  • EUSEBIUS: SON OF PAMPHILUS THE PROOF OF THE GOSPEL BOOK 1 INTRODUCTION

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1. [1] The Title: "son of Pamphilus" either by adoption, or E. assumed the name from affection (G.P.E. vol. iii. p. 2).[...]
2. [2] The paging in the margin is that of J. A. Fabricius, who first edited the opening of the work (pp. 1, 4-17, 18) f[...]
3. [3] Theodotus, bishop of Laodicea in Syria, about A.D. 310-340: the Praeparatio is dedicated to him. See also H.E. vi[...]
4. [4] exanyetai. Lit., is being brought to a conclusion. The introduction was written last.


  • EUSEBIUS: SON OF PAMPHILUS THE PROOF OF THE GOSPEL BOOK 1 INTRODUCTION
    • CHAPTER 1 The Object and Contents of the Work.

p. 3
5. [1] For Bethlehem as a place of pilgrimage see also 97 c (and note) and 341 b, and Origen, c. Cels. i. 51.

p. 4
6. [1] allofylon: so Fabricius.
7. [2] daimonon apofygen. See Harnack : Expansion of Christianity. Excursus on "The Conflict with Demons." E. T. i. 152[...]


  • EUSEBIUS: SON OF PAMPHILUS THE PROOF OF THE GOSPEL BOOK 1 INTRODUCTION
    • CHAPTER 3  That the System of Moses was not Suitable for All Nations.

p. 14
8. 1 It is at this point that the Paris Codex 469, the basis of the edition of Stephen, and the Paris edition of 1628 b[...]


  • BOOK II.
    • PREFACE

p. 62
1. 1 a1nwqen e0panalabw&n to_n lo&gon, e0pa&neimi e0pi/. Cf. e0panabebhko&j, P. E. 130b.


  • BOOK II.
    • CHAPTER 1

p. 64
2. 1 e0k periousi/aj : generally a rhetorical figure—"from superabundant evidence." Gifford [P. E. 64 a, 2] quotes Plat[...]

p. 65
3. 1 The words of Balaam. Cf. Gen. xii. 3.

p. 66
4. 1 Aquila, a Jewish proselyte, probably of Hadrian's time (A.I). 117-138), who produced a Greek version of O.T. which[...]
5. 2 Theodotion, like A. first mentioned by Irenaeus (iii. xxi. 1, p. 215), probably an Ephesian Jewish proselyte. He w[...]

p. 68
6. 1 ei\s pla&toj.


  • BOOK II.
    • CHAPTER 2
7. 2 Nominative.

p. 69
8. 1 See note, p. 21.


  • BOOK II.
    • CHAPTER 3

p. 71
9. 1 Jer. xvii. 1-4 is wanting from LX, but given in some codices with asterisks. Sec also 484 c. 
10. 2 twn eqnwn apantwn.

p. 73
11. 1 exomalisomen.
12. 2 thn kata dianoian qewroumenhn skhnophgian. Or, "the Feast of Tabernacles in a spiritual sense."

p. 76
13. 1 perittouV einai
14. 2 kataleimma. LXX : D.F. K. L.P.— upoleimma —Aleph A.B.
15. 3 R.V. " For the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short." en . . . suntetmhmen[...]
16. 4 W. H.: kata tou Israhl. E. legwn peri tou Israhl. 
17. 5 W.H.: omit tou labein authn.

p. 78
18. 1 dasmouV kai forouV.
19. 2 ton dia loutrou paliggeietiaV.

p. 79
20. 1 LXX takes kaq eautwn with eiponteV.
21. 2 Paris text has di on - on - autouV.

p. 80
22. 1 'upostolh xrhtai, "a lowering of diet," Plut. 2, 129 c. ; "an evasion," Hesych. cf. Heb. x. 39.
23. 2 Symmachus, author of the third great Jewish version of the O.T., which comes in Origen's Hexapla after that of Aqu[...]
24. 3 LXX : oikon tou Israhl.

p. 83
25. 1 S.: kai thi kardiai sunwsin.
26. 2 S.: iasomai. E.: iaswmai.

p. 84
27. 1 Cf. H.E. iv. c. 6 ; Tertullian, Apol. c. 16. Origen, c. Celsum viii. ad fin.; Gregory Naz., Orat. xii. After the f[...]

p. 85
28. 1 Isa. vii. 14. Cf. 98 a, and Origen, c. Celsum, i. 35.
29. 2 to men eiseti stoixeioumenon, to de hdh dia tou loutrou pefwtismenon.

p. 86
30. 1 W.H. add : di 'hmaV gar egrafh.
31. 2 E. adds mikron.
32. 3 S.: estai. E.: anastreyei.

p. 88
33. 1 E. adds kai zhthsai.
34. 2 LXX : kai ex ArabiaV. E.: kai apo twn nhswn thV qalasshV.
35. 3 E. omits touV apolomenouV Israhl, kai. (S.)

p. 90
36. 1 Lit. "moreover shall add to shew his hand." 
37. 2 'uposuronteV. Cf. P.E. 317 a, Of the Serpent.

p. 91
38. 1 Lit. wings. 
39. 2 efelkusamenon ena laon sunhxe twi qewi . . . . sugkrotoumenon.

p. 92
40. 1 S. omits nhsoi.

p. 93
41. 1 Omission in E of 5 b, 6 a, owing to error of scribe because of touV katoikountaV authn (5 a) and oi katoikounteV [...]

p. 94
42. 1 S. adds: Parwxunnan me en toiV eidwloiV autwn—"They have provoked me with their idols."
43. 2 LXX : pl.
44. 3 LXX : tw daimoni . . . thi tuchi.

p. 95
45. 1 S.: kataleiyete

p. 96
46. 1 LXX : 'wV lewn en kthnesin en twi drumwi.
47. 2 Cf. 97 c, 275 a, 340 d, and Origen c. Celsum 453.
48. 3 thn pro aiwnoV ousiwsin—cf. P.E. 314 b, 554 c and 541 a: "It is literally the act which gives to einai te kai thn o[...]
49. 4 ou peri uiouV anqrwpwn.

p. 97
50. 1 Interesting as an echo of recent persecution.
51. 2 Zech. xiv. This is a post-exilic prophecy of an eschatological nature, being one of the fragments appended to Zech[...]


  • BOOK III

p. 100
1. 1 Books I. and II. are the "prolegomena." The Demonstratio itself begins here. Eusebius claims by his arguments to h[...]
2. 2 pare/labon = state concisely.


  • BOOK III
    • CHAPTER 1 That the Prophets made Mention of the Gospel of the Christ.

p. 102
3. 1 Following Gaisford, who for a0nable/pousi suggests a0mbluw&ttousi. Diodatus had evidently read—a0naph&roij ou]si.

p. 103
4. 1 LXX: i0dou_ ku&rioj. ku&rioj meta_ i0sxu&oj e1rxetai.


  • BOOK III
    • CHAPTER 2  That the Hebrew Prophets prophesied of Christ.

p. 105
5. 1 S.: oi9 a1nqrwpoi. Prayer Book Version: " Put them in fear."

p. 106
6. 1 S. reads for di/dwmi ("give"), u3w—"rain down."

p. 107
7. 1 W.H. add kat0 i0di/an.
8. 2 E.: e0n daktu&lw| Qeou~. W.H.: e0n pneu&mati Qeou~. 
9. 3 S. adds: "whom you yourself know to be elders of the people and their scribes, and thou shall bring them to the ta[...]

p. 108
10. 1 S. "He brought the seventy men" follows in verse 24.
11. 2 E.: maqhta&j. W.H.: e9te/rouj. 
12. 3 E. omits autou&j.
13. 4 S. reads: "Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shall not steal. Thou shalt not bear false wi[...]

p. 109
14. 1 h9 palaia_ grafh&, or "ancient records."
15. 2 diaqe/sei gnhsiwta&th.
16. 3 See note, page 21.

p. 110
17. 1 The ancestor of the Herods was Antipater, governor of Judaea under Alexander Jannaeus (104-78 B.C.). Nicolaus of D[...]

p. 112
18. 1 Cf. I. i.
19. 2 o0ligosto_j ei] tou~ ei]nai; cf. Origen, contra Celsum, l. i. §51. "The cave is shewn where He was born, and the m[...]

p. 113
20. 1 E. omits: o3ti a0pe/straptai to& pro&swpon au0tou~.
21. 2 E. omits: a1nqrwpoj th~| o9dw~| au0tou~ e0planh&qh.
22. 3 E. omits: 0En th~| tapeinw&sei h9 kri/sij au0tou~ h0rqh.

p. 116
23. 1 a0ntible/yai. Cf. P.E. 289 B, from Orig., Tom. iii. in Gen. a0ntible/pein h9donh~| — to resist pleasure.
24. 2 LXX: kai\ tw~n au0lai/wn sou.
25. 3 E.: kai\ ta_j de/rreij tw~n au0lai/wn.

p. 117
26. 1 Unbelievers in the prophecies must be approached by another method. To them E. must speak of Christ, w9j peri\ a0n[...]


  • BOOK III
    • CHAPTER 3 Addressed to those that suppose that the Christ of God was a Deceiver.

p. 118
27. 1 e0pieikei/aj. 
28. 2 Or "reassembled." 
29. 3 Reading a0nqrw&pouj au0tou_j kaq (Paris ed.), and supplying, "are following the way of": "Plura mihi videnter eme[...]

p. 119
30. 1 e0pi\ spei/raj: spei~ra, equivalent of Roman "manipulus" (Polyb. xi. 23. 1). In Acts x. 1 a larger body, probably [...]
31. 2 traxhlisqe/nta. Cp. Heb. iv. 13. The spirit of Heathenism was the true deceiver which had deluded an originally mon[...]
32. 3 i.e. followers of Porphyry.
33. 4 Cf. Sib. Or. iii. 218 seq. for an eulogy of the Jews: "There is on earth a city, Ur of the Chaldees, from which sp[...]

p. 120
34. 1 Porphyry (Malchus, Vit. Plot. vii. 107) "the soberest of the Neoplatonic philosophers" (Cheetham), succeeded Plot[...]

p. 121
35. 1 a0gwgh&n.
36. 2 Philostratus' Life of Apollonius. See Praep. Evan. p. 150, where G. quotes from Ritter and Preller "a brief summar[...]

p. 122
37. 1 Gifford's translation.
38. 2 genhto_j o9 ko&smoj, cf. note by Gifford in P. E. 18 c. 3 on distinction between a0ge&nhtoj (uncreated) and a0ge/n[...]
39. 3 E. quotes Phaedo, 96 A. (P. E. 26) on the research into the natural laws of growth and decay; cf. Republ. viii. 546.

p. 123
40. 1 taj o0fru~j a0naspako&twn, cf. P. E. 135 d of theosophical philosophers, 224 a from Oenomaus — to draw up the eyebr[...]

p. 124
41. 1 See chiefly, P. E., Books iv. v. and vi.


  • BOOK III
    • CHAPTER 4 Of the Diviner Works of Christ.
42. 2 Basiliko_j a0nh_r.

p. 125
43. 1 Or "choked by a cord."
44. 2 to_ tro&paion: the other reading is to_n tro&pon which hardly yields sense.
45. 3 Or "buried in the fitting way."

p. 126
46. 1 l. c. The Lord's miracles have been tested both by their agreement with what the Christian recognizes as miraculou[...]


  • BOOK III
    • CHAPTER 5 Against those that disbelieve the Account of Our Saviour's Miracles given by His Disciples.

p. 127
47. 1 W.H. add mhde\ xalko&n.

p. 129
48. 1 e0fanta&sqhsan, cf: P.E. 17 c, of learning God's greatness from His works: here it has the Aristotelian sense of so[...]

p. 130
49. 1 Kalindoume/noi; cf. e0kalindou~nto, P. E. 511, a, 1. Lit.: "rolling about," so in common idiom "busied.'' So Dem. [...]
50. 2 e0f0 h9suxi/aj. Cf. Arist. Vesp. 1517.
51. 3 Cf. H.E. iii. i, which gives the tradition that the apostles evangelized the whole world: Thomas receiving Parthia[...]

p. 131
52. 1 oi[a mu&stai tw~n a0porrh&twn au0tou~ gegenhme/noi.

p. 132
53. 1 e0kqeiazo&menon; cf. P. E. 41 a, 780 b. 
54. 2 w3spe/r ti fo&bhtron.
55. 3 staurwqe/nta supplied by Gaisford.

p. 133
56. 1 u9p0 au0tou~ (P.). Amended to u9pe/r by Gaisford.

p. 134
57. 1 See Eus., H.E. ii. 23. 
58. 2 Ibid. ii. 25.
59. 3 Ibid. iii. 23.
60. 4 peri/doj. Cf. HE. 72b.

p. 135
61. 1 S. (Deut. xix. 15): e0pi\ sto&matoj du&o martu&rwn, kai\ e0pi\ sto&matoj triw~n martu&rwn sth&setai pa~n r9h~ma. [...]

p. 136
62. 1 W.H. add tou~ Nazwrai/ou.

p. 137
63. 1 Cf. Tertull., Apol. c. 2: "Illud solum expectatur quod odio publico necessarium est, confessio nominis, non examin[...]
64. 2 W.H.: lego&menon. E.: o0no&mati.
65. 3 That Matthew "wrote in Hebrew the Gospel that hears his name'' is stated by Eus., H.E. iii. 24. And the words of P[...]

p. 139
66. 1 eu0la&beia: cf. Hebrews xii. 29, meta_ eu)labei/aj kai\ de/ouj.
67. 2 W.H.: o# e0a&n and singular participles. E.: o#sa a!n and pl.

p. 140
68. 1 E. changes order of words: Verses 67 and 69 read ei0j th_n e1cw pro&aulin, for e1cw ei0j to_ proau&lion (68). W.H. [...]
69. 2 Paris Text adds ou!te oi]da.

p. 141
70. 1 It is certainly true that modern Criticism has judged the Gospels by canons that would be considered unduly rigoro[...]
71. 2 The xlamu&j was the short military cloak. It is used by Plutarch (Peric 35, Lysander 13) for the "paludamentum," o[...]
72. 3 e0pikomi/zonta. usually "carry to " There seems no force here in the e0pi/.

p. 142
73. 1 Possibly E. is condemning by implication some absurd tales in the Apocryphal Gospels.
74. 2 As the Docetists taught.
75. 3 Paraxara&cantej cf. P.E. 495 a. A word used both literally and metaphorically of "marking with a false stamp," " f[...]
76. 4 Josephus, Ant. XVIII. iii. 3. The passage is also quoted, H.E. I. 11. 6, 7. It is found in all MSS. of Josephus, n[...]

p. 143
77. 1 E. has e0kei=non for tou~ton. sebome/nwn for dexome/nwn. tou~ 'Ioudai/koi for 'Ioudai/ouj. tw~n par' h(mi=n a)rxo&nt[...]
78. 2 A.D. 130. Cf. H.E. iv. 6, "eighteenth year of Hadrian." In his Chronicon Eusebius puts the rebellion in Hadrian's [...]

p. 144
79. 1 See Eus., H.E. iv. 5. [Note to the online text: From p.145 onwards I have omitted all but one of the footnotes[...]


  • BOOK III
    • CHAPTER 6 Against Those who think that the Christ of God was a Sorcerer.

p. 154
80. 2 Porphyry: see notes, pp. 120 and 155. "The Neoplatonists praised Christ while they disparaged Christianity" (Aug.,[...]


  • BOOK VIII
    • 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.

p. 123
1. 1 Cf. Plato, Republic, 543 A.

p. 127
2. 1 Jos., Ant. XI. 5. 8.

p. 128
3. 2 "Thirty years."—Jos., Ant. XX. 10. 3.
4. 3 Jos., Ant. XIII. 11. 1.

p. 132
5. 2 The reference is to Jos., Ant. Jud. XX. (not XVIII.) cap. viii. (x.),
6. 3 Jos., Ant. Jud. XX. 10. 5.

p. 133
7. 1 Jos., Ant. Jud. XVIII. 4. 3.
8. 2 See Eus., H.E. I. 10.

p. 134
9. 1 Jos., Ant. Jud. XVIII. 2. 2.

p. 138
10. 1 Jos., B.J. VI. 5,3.
11. 2 Jos., Ant. XVIII. 3, and B.J. II. 9. 2.
12. 3 Philo Jud., cf. leg. ad caium 38, pp. 589, 590.


  • BOOK IX
    • CHAPTER 5 From Isaiah. Of the Preaching of John in the Wilderness.

p. 163
1. 3 Cf.: Euseb., H.E. I. 11.
2. 4 Jos., Ant. XVIII. 5. 2.


  • BOOK IX
    • (442) CHAPTER 10 From Isaiah. Of the Reading from the Prophecy by Our Lord in the Jewish Synagogue.

p. 173
3. 1 A section in one of the lost books.


  • BOOK X
    • CHAPTER 8  From Psalm xxi. Of What was done at Our Saviour's Passion. At the End concerning His being succoured in the Morning.

p. 236
1. 3 The last five lines are supplied by Fabricius from another MS.


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