Scriptural Types and Prophecies Fulfilled in Eusebius: “The Proof of the Gospel”

(Updated August 7, 2025)

Scriptural citations by Eusebius of Scriptural Types and Prophecies Fulfilled by Christ and the New Covenant in his apologetic work, The Proof of the Gospel, written sometime after 314.

Book 1: How Christ Fulfilled the Old Covenant

Chapter 4: Why We Reject the Jews’ Way of Life, Though We Accept Their Writings

• Ps. 9:20
• Ps. 95:1, 10
• Ps. 98:1-3
• Jer. 31:31-33
• 1 Tim. 1:9
• Isa. 2:3

Chapter 10: Why We Are Not Bidden to Burn Incense and Sacrifice the Fruits of the Earth as in Olden Times

• Gen. 4:3
• Lev. 17:11
• Lev. 3:1
• Gen. 1:11
• Isa. 53:7, 4-6, 9
• Jer. 11:19
• John 1:29
• Gal. 3:13
• 2 Cor. 5:21
• Matt. 13:17
• Gal. 3:13
• Ps. 40:1-3, 7-8, 9
• Ps. 32:5
• Isa. 25:1, 6
• Ps. 50:14
• Ps. 141:2
• Ps. 51:17
• Mal. 1:11
• Ps. 50:17
• Ps. 140:2

Book 2: The Call of the Gentiles and the Decline of the Jewish Nation

Chapter 1: That the Israelite Prophets Gave Their Best Predictions for Us of the Foreign Nations

• How the Nations Will be Blessed in the Same Way as Those Named After Abraham (Gen. 18:27)
• That All the Nations Will be Blessed in the Seed from the Line of Isaac (Gen. 26:3; cf. Num. 24:9)
• Of the Many Nations to Arise out of Jacob, Although Only the Jews Has Come Forth From Him (Gen. 35:11)
• The Joy in God of the Nations (Deut. 32:43)
• A Turning to God from the Ends of the Earth to Learn Righteousness (Ps. 21:28-32)
• Announcement of Holiness and Purity to the Nations, and the Kingdom of God Over the Nations (Ps. 46:1-2, 8)
• The Holiness of the Nations (Ps. 85:8-10)
• The Holiness of All the Heathen, the New Song, the Kingdom of God and the Happiness of the World (Ps. 95:1-4, 7, 10)
• All the Nations, Including the Egyptians, Obtaining Knowledge of the Only True God, and the Spiritual Worship and Festival According to Divine Law (Zech. 14:16-19)
• The Choice of the Apostles and the Calling of the Gentiles (Isa. 9:1-2)
• The Calling of the Gentiles (Isa. 49:1, 6)

Chapter 2: More Prophecies

• The Plotting Against Christ, Called the Son of God, Who Receives the Gentiles from His Father (Ps. 2:1-2, 7-8)
• Christ’s Kingdom and the Call of the Gentiles (Ps. 71:1-2, 8, 11, 17, 19)
• The New Song, the Arm of the Lord, and His Showing Salvation to All Nations, Shown in the Son’s Hebrew Name (Ps. 97)
• After the Cessation of the Kingdom of the Jews, the Christ Who Comes Will be the Expectation of the Gentiles (Gen. 49:10)
• The Appearance of Christ, the Destruction of Idolatry, and the Piety of the Nations Toward God (Zeph. 2:11)
• The Day of Christ’s Resurrection, the Gathering of the Nations, How All Men Will Know God, and the Ethiopians Will Bring Sacrifices to Him (Zeph. 3:8)
• The Appearance of Christ and How Many Nations Will Flee to Him (Zech. 2:10)
• The Birth of Christ from the Root of David, and His Call of All the Nations (Isa. 11:1, 10)
• The Appearance of Christ, and His Benefits to All the Nations (Isa. 43:1-4, 6-9)
• Christ and His Birth, and the Call of the Gentiles (Isa. 49:1, 7)
• Christ and the Call of the Gentiles (Isa. 55:3-5)
• The Refusal of the Jews and the Substitution of the Gentiles in Their Place (Jer. 6:16)
• The Piety of the Gentiles, the Impiety of the Jews, and the Prediction of Evils After the Coming of Christ (Jer. 16:19–17:4)
• The Dispersion of the Jews, and the Call of the Gentiles that Results (Amos 9:9)
• Accusation Against the Rulers of the Jewish People, the Desolation of Jerusalem, and the Appearance of Christ and His Church for All Nations (Mic. 3:9-4:2)
• Christ’s Appearance, the Destruction of the Warlike Preparations of the Jews, and the Kingdom of the Lord Going to the Ends of the Earth (Zech. 9:9-10)
• Rebuke of the Jews, God’s Refusal of Mosaic Worship, and the Spiritual Worship Delivered by Christ to the Gentiles (Mal. 1:10-12)
• The Apostasy of the Jews, the Revelation of the Word of God, and the New Law (Isa. 1:8, 21, 30; 2:2-4)
• Destruction of the Glory of the Jews, the Turning of the Nations from Idolatry to God, and the Desolation of Jewish Cities for Their Unfaithfulness (Isa. 17:5-11)
• The Destruction of Jewish Cities and the Joy of the Gentiles in God (Isa. 25:1-8)
• Message of Good News to the Nations, and the Rejection of the Jewish Nation, and the Call of All Nations (Isa. 43:18-25; 45:22-25)
• The Coming of Christ, Reproof of the Jews, and Good Things for All Nations (Isa. 50:1-2, 10; 51:4-5)
• Reproof of the Sins of the Jews, Their Fall, and the Call of the Gentiles (Isa. 59:1-11, 19)