Section 54
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2fc ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. / this name, which had never been uttered among men, before Moses\he applies first to him alone who, by a type and sign, he knew would be his successor after his death, in the government of the na tion. His successor, therefore, who had not assumed the appella tion Jesus,* (Joshua,) before this period, being called by his other name Oshea, which his parents had given, was called by Moses Jesus, (Jehoshua, Joshua.) Num. xiii. 17. This name, as an ho nourable distinction, far superior to any royal diadem, was con ferred on Joshua, because Joshua the son of Nun bore a resem blance to our Saviour, as the only one after Moses, and the com pletion of that symbolical worship given through him, that should succeed him in a government of pure and undefiled religion. Thus Moses attaches the name of our Saviour Jesus Christ, as the greatest honour to two men, who, according to him, excelled all the rest in virtue and glory ; the one to the high priest, the other to him that should have the government after him. But the prophets that lived subsequently to these times, also plainly announced Christ before by name ; whilst at the same time they foretel the machinations of the Jews against him, and the calling of the Gentiles through him. Jeremiah bears testimony, speaking thus : " The breathf (the spi rit,) before our face, Christ the Lord, was taken away in their destructions; of whom we said, under his shadow will we live among the nations." Lam. iv. 20. David also, fixed in astonish ment, speaks of him as follows : " Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ." To which he afterwards adds, in the person of Christ himself: " The Lord said to me, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ; ask of me, and I will give thee the na tions for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." Ps. ii. * Jesus. By some corruption of the name of Joshua, Eusebius calls him A uses. Jesus is the Greek form, for the more Hebrew Joshua. The Scptuagint invariably use the former, and in one instance it is retained in our English version. Heb. iv. 8. •j-This passage from Jeremiah is rendered as the above from the Septuagint, as quoted by Eusebius. In our English version, the force of the allusion is not per ceptible, and one might look in vain for the passage as rendered here ; but the He brew fully admits the Greek version here given.