Prefiguration was an essential tool for the evangelists. They took the LXX or the original Tanakh and looked for allegorical references that they could attach to the figure of Jesus of Nazareth to prove his divinity or his messianic mission. The most famous passage Matthew 1:23 contains a quote from Isa 7:14.
In a similar way, a quote from Hos 11:1 found its way to Mt 2:15. Since Jesus traveled from Bethlehem to Egypt and from Egypt to Nazareth, the book of Hosea must be considered significant for Matthew and subsequent early Christian writers.
Here in the book of Hosea we have two prefigurations significant for Eusebius of Cesarea himself.
These are Hos 5:14 διότι ἐγώ εἰμι ὡς πανθὴρ τῷ Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ὡς λέων τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰούδα·
and Hos 13:7. καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς ὡς πανθὴρ καὶ ὡς πάρδαλις κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν Ἀσσυρίων
Here Jesus is compared to … a panther, which lures victims with its tempting and wonderful smell. Similarly, Jesus lures the faithful to himself with the Word of God.
So Jesus is a panther, or the son of a Panther.
The only problem is that the LXX panther is originally a lion or a young lion in Tanakh. And the book of Hoseas is devoted to his marital adventures with his wife, a prostitute.
Did the first Christians create a parallel Jesus – “panther” from Hosea, to which the Jews replied that it was not a “panther”, but the son of Panthera – his mother’s lover?
Or vice versa, as we already have in Eusebius, defending themselves against the charge of conception from Panthera, Christians argued: “Not the son of Panthera, but Christ – a panther”?
For now, Jesus remains in the cat superposition