Eusebius of Caesarea · a new plain-English translation from the Greek
9| Once he had declared, then, that repentance must be proclaimed in his name to all the nations: if the deed had not followed the word, let the account of his return to life from the dead not be believed either; but if even now the prediction is passing into fact, and his word is seen with our own eyes living and at work throughout the whole inhabited world, it is time to stop disbelieving the one who uttered that word. For when someone's power is seen living and at work, there is every necessity to confess, much sooner, that he lives and is accomplishing the life of God, he whose deeds are shown to be alive and in agreement with his sayings. His words, at any rate, have gone through every hearing of every kind of nation, changed and translated into every tongue, Greek and barbarian, so that his teaching is heard by countless multitudes of those who formerly lived wrongly and shamefully in the error of many gods and in idolatry. And he does not command them to proclaim forgiveness first and then repentance, but repentance first and then forgiveness. For to those who first showed a genuine repentance of their evils, the saving grace gave pardon for what they had done; it was for them that he also took death upon himself, giving himself as a ransom and as a life given in exchange for those who were to be saved through him. So, then, his disciples, men without experience in speaking, wholly unlettered, poor and humble in their bearing, took courage from the power of the one who was seen after death and openly lived among them, and beginning from the city of Jerusalem according to his commands, so that the Jews who had disbelieved might be left without excuse, they went out to all the nations and did what they had been commanded, proclaiming to all repentance and release from the soul's former offenses [….]
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