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Proof of the Gospel
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Ferrar, 1920
Book 6, 11. From the Second Book of Kings [= 2 Samuel]
From the Second Book of Kings [= 2 Samuel]
(c) The Lord descending from Heaven, Leader of the Nations that before knew Him not, and about to cast off the Jewish Nation.
[Passages quoted, 2 Sam. xxii. 1, 10-12, 44-46.]
(d) THE God that bowed the heavens and came down, Who mounted upon the man whom He had chosen, called here Cherubim by Scripture, flew up with Him making His Ascension with the divine spirits as His bodyguard, and these are called the wings of the winds. And it suggests that this was done darkly and in obscurity1 by some secret and hidden words, when it says, “And he made darkness his secret place.” What follows agrees with the Incarnation of Christ and shews the opposition of the Jewish people to Him, and the obedience of the Gentiles to His teaching.
You will find similar sayings in the Seventeenth Psalm, about which I have already given my views.2
Notes
- ἐν παραβύστῳ = “pushed aside or in a corner,” a term borrowed from a minor Athenian Law Court (Lys. ap. Poll. 8, 121; Pausan, 1, 28, 8). Cf. Dem. 715, 20; Arist, Top. 8, 1, 17.
- See ii. 2,