Section 53
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 21 and the glory, and the kingdom, and all people, tribes, tongues shall serve him. His power is an everlasting power, which shall not pass away ; and his kingdom shall not be destroyed." These passages can;evidei]tly be referred to no one but to our Saviour, that God word* which was in the beginning with God; called the Son of God, by reason of his final appearance in the flesh. But having collected the prophetic declarations concerning our Saviour Jesus Christ, in distinct commentariesf on this subject, and having else where digested whatever is revealed concerning him, in a more demonstrable form, what has been said upon the subject here may suffice for the present. CHAPTER III. The name Jesus, as also that of Christ, was both known and ho noured from ancient times, by the inspired prophets. IT Js now the proper place to show (hat the very name of Jesus, as also that of Christ, was honoured by the pious prophets of old. And first, Moses" himself, having intimated how exceedingly au gust and illustrious the name of Christ is, delivering types and mys tical images, according to the oracle which declared to him, " See that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shown thee on the mount," — the same man whom, as far as it was lawful, he had called the high priest of God, the self-same he calls ChristJ And in this way, to the dignity of the priesthood, which surpasses with him, all superiority among men, as additional ho nour and glory, he attaches the name of Christ, flence he evi dently understood that Christ was a Being divine!^ The same Moses, under the divine Spirit, foreseeing also the epithet Jesus, likewise dignifies this with a certain distinguished privilege. For Go d -coord. The literal expression is retained here. •j-Commentaries. Eusebius here refers to two other works of his, written be fore this history, his Preparation and Demonstration. Christ. Christ and Messiah, the same epithets in different languages, signify anointed, or the anointed one.