Proof of the Gospel
c. 314–318
Demonstratio Evangelica
Eusebius’s Demonstratio Evangelica (Proof of the Gospel): prophetic and Christological demonstration of the Christian faith. Ten books survive of the original twenty.
Translated by W. J. Ferrar
English translation by W. J. Ferrar, The Proof of the Gospel being the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Caesarea (London: SPCK, 1920). Public domain. Digital text via Roger Pearse / tertullian.org.
Contents
- Book 1, Chapter 1: The Object and Contents of the Work.
- Book 1, Chapter 2: The Character of the Christian Religion.
- Book 1, Chapter 4: Why it is we reject the Jews' Way of Life, though we accept their Writings.
- Book 1, Chapter 6: The Nature of the Life according to the New Covenant proclaimed to All Men by Christ.
- Book 1, Chapter 7
- Book 1, Chapter 9: Why a Numerous Offspring is not as Great a Concern to us as it was to them of Old Time.
- Book 1, Chapter 10: Why we are not bidden to</I> <I>burn Incense and to sacrifice the Fruits of the Earth to God as were the Men of Old Time.
- Book 2, Chapter 1
- Book 2, Chapter 2
- Book 2, Chapter 3
- Book 3, Chapter 1: That the Prophets made Mention of the Gospel of the Christ.
- Book 3, Chapter 3: Addressed to those that suppose that the Christ of God was a Deceiver.
- Book 3, Chapter 4: Of the Diviner Works of Christ.
- Book 3, Chapter 5: Against those that disbelieve the Account of Our Saviour's Miracles given by His Disciples.
- Book 3, Chapter 6: Against Those who think that the Christ of God was a Sorcerer.
- Book 4, Chapter 1: Of the Mystical Dispensation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus, </I>(144) <I>the Christ of God.
- Book 4, Chapter 3: That we rightly teach that there are not many sons of the Supreme God, but One only, God of God.
- Book 4, Chapter 4: That the Only-begotten Son of God must be considered necessarily Anterior to the Whole Universe.
- Book 4, 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.
- Book 4, Chapter 6: That from the First Constitution of the Universe the Christ of God has been the Invisible Guardian of Godly Souls.
- Book 4, 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.
- Book 4, Chapter 8: That the Other Nations, assigned to Certain Angels, worshipped only the Stars of Heaven.
- Book 4, Chapter 9: Of the Hostile Power opposed to God, and of its Ruler, and how the Whole Race of Mankind was in Subjection thereto.
- Book 4, Chapter 10: That the Only-begotten Son of God made His Entry among Mankind of Necessity.
- Book 4, Chapter 11
- Book 4, Chapter 12: That the Laws of Loving-kindness called Him even to them that had been long dead.
- Book 4, Chapter 13: That even when He was made Man, He remained in the Nature that cannot suffer, or be harmed, or embodied.
- Book 4, Chapter 15: What the Advent of Christ is meant to shew forth, and that </I>(171) <I>He is called God and Lord and High Priest of the God of the Universe by the Hebrew Prophets.
- Book 4, Chapter 17: That the Name of Jesus was also honoured among the Ancient Friends of God.
- Book 5, 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.
- Book 5, Chapter 3
- Book 5, 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.
- Book 5, 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.
- Book 5, Chapter 13
- Book 5, Chapter 16
- Book 5, Chapter 17: That this Lord again Who gave Answers to Moses, knowing another Lord Greater than Himself as Father, called Him the True God.
- Book 5, 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 </I>(b) <I>did to the Fathers.
- Book 5, Chapter 25
- Book 5, Chapter 26: The same, and concerning the Call of the Gentiles.
- Book 5, Chapter 27: How again the Lord narrates concerning another</I> <I>Lord, and this is clearly His Father. </I>(253) </P> <blockquote> <P> [Passage quoted, Zech. iii. 1.] </P> </blockquote> <P> AND here again the Lord says that another Lord will rebuke the devil. The Lord that is speaking with Him is not himself the rebuker, but tells of another Lord. Wherein I consider there is clear proof of the existence of two Lords, the Father and God of the Universe, and One after the Father, Who has received the lordship and dominion of all things begotten. </P> <P align="center"> <b> CHAPTER 28</b> (b)<SUB> </SUB> </P> <P align="center"> From Malachi. </P> <P align="center"> <I>That the Almighty God calls the Angel of the Covenant Christ, and the same Being Lord.
- Book 5, Chapter 29: That the God of the Universe names Christ the Sun of Righteousness.
- Book 5, Chapter 30
- Book 6, Chapter 1
- Book 6, Chapter 2
- Book 6, Chapter 3
- Book 6, Chapter 4
- Book 6, Chapter 5
- Book 6, Chapter 7
- Book 6, Chapter 9
- Book 6, Chapter 11
- Book 6, Chapter 12
- Book 6, Chapter 13
- Book 6, Chapter 14
- Book 6, Chapter 15
- Book 6, Chapter 16
- Book 6, Chapter 17
- Book 6, Chapter 18
- Book 6, Chapter 19
- Book 6, Chapter 20
- Book 6, Chapter 21
- Book 6, Chapter 22
- Book 6, Chapter 23
- Book 6, Chapter 24
- Book 6, Chapter 25
- Book 7, Chapter 1
- Book 7, Chapter 2
- Book 7, Chapter 3
- Book 8, Chapter 2
- Book 8, Chapter 3
- Book 8, Chapter 4
- Book 8, Chapter 5
- Book 9, Chapter 1: Of the Things that happened at the Incarnation, and of the Star that appeared at Our Saviour's Birth.
- Book 9, Chapter 2
- Book 9, Chapter 3
- Book 9, Chapter 4
- Book 9, Chapter 5
- Book 9, Chapter 6
- Book 9, Chapter 7
- Book 9, Chapter 8
- Book 9, Chapter 9
- Book 9, Chapter 11
- Book 9, Chapter 13
- Book 9, Chapter 11
- Book 9, Chapter 15
- Book 9, Chapter 16
- Book 9, Chapter 17
- Book 10, Chapter 1
- Book 10, Chapter 2
- Book 10, Chapter 3
- Book 10, Chapter 4
- Book 10, Chapter 5
- Book 10, Chapter 6
- Book 10, Chapter 7