Image: Bronze prutah (small value coin) from the rule of Herod of the Great (c. 37-4 BC).
A new installment to the series on Eusebius of Caesarea’s The
Ecclesiastical History has been posted, book 1, chapter 6. Listen here.
Notes and Commentary:
Eusebius here focuses on the fact that Jesus was born during
the reign of Herod, who was the first, as he sees it, non-Jewish king of
Israel. Herod, if an Idumean on his father’s side and an Arab on his mother’s
side, was “the first foreigner to hold the sovereignty of the Jewish nation.”
For Eusebius this fulfilled Genesis 49:10: “A ruler shall not
fail from Judah nor a leader from his loins until he comes for whom it is
reserved.”
He also sees the birth of Jesus as fulfilling a prophecy of
Daniel 9:24-27, regarding “the number of certain weeks” and the coming of the
Messiah.
We see again how Eusebius sees continuity OT prediction and
NT fulfillment.
JTR
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