Library Eusebius of Caesarea Proof of the Gospel
Book 9
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.
[Passage quoted, Isa. xix. 1.]
It is, of course, possible that the prophecy from another point of view teaches in a figurative and disguised way about the earthly universe, into which it prophesies that the Lord will come on a light cloud, a figure of the Humanity that He took of the Virgin and the Holy Spirit. And that the idols of Egypt to be shaken, are the idols of (all) nations, while the vanquished Egyptians are all those (d) who were of old distracted by idolatry. This may be so, yet when our Lord in bodily form was carried into Egypt, when Joseph arose in obedience to the oracle, and took Mary and the young Child, and went into Egypt, it is probable that the evil daemons who dwelt there of old were greatly moved by His unspeakable power and might; and |156 most of all when, through His teaching, so many of Egypt's inhabitants afterwards rejected the errors of the daemons, and even now profess to know the God of the Universe alone.
(423) That which immediately follows I will interpret when I have more leisure, for it is figuratively expressed, and would need considerable labour.
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.