CONTENTS ΟF BOOK Ι The first book of the Ecclesiastical History
contains the following : I. What are the presuppositions of the Promise. II. Α summary account of the pre-existence of,
and attribution of divinity to, our Saviour
and Lord, the Christ of God. III. How both the name of Jesus and even that of
Christ itself were known from the first and
honoured by the inspired prophets. ΙV. How there was nothing revolutionary or
strange in the character of the religion
announced by him to all the nations. V. Concerning the time of his appearance to men. VI. How in his time in agreement with prophecy
the previous line of ancestral rulers of the
Jewish nation died out, and Herod, the first
foreigner, were their king. VII. Concerning the supposed discrepancy in the
Gospels on the genealogy as to Christ. VIII. Concerning the plot of Herod against the

 
children and the catastrophe which overtook
him in his Ιife. IX. Concerning the times of Pilate. X. Concerning the high priests among the Jews
in whose time the Christ gave his teaching. XI. The evidence relating to John the Baptist and
the Christ. XII. Concerning the disciples of our Saviour. XIII. Α narrative concerning the ruler of the
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