Library Eusebius of Caesarea Proof of the Gospel
Book 6
Chapter 14
From Habakkuk.
That it was prophesied that the Word of God that cometh will come and will not tarry.
[Passage quoted, Hab. ii. 2.]
AND here it is clearly foretold that the subject of the prophecy who is coming will come. Who could this be but he who is referred to above in the words, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the Lord God also has shone upon us"? With which also Zechariah agrees, when he says: "Behold a man, the Dawn is his name, and |19 he shall rise from below." The same prophet, too, noting the time adds, "At eventide it shall be light. If he delays, wait for him." Instead of which Aquila reads, "If he tarry expect him, for he that cometh will come, and will not tarry." And the Epistle to the Hebrews has this in mind when it says:
"Cast not away then your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, doing the will of God, ye may receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that cometh will come, and will not tarry. And the just shall live by my faith. And if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him."
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.