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Irenæus
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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[2746] Billius, following the old Latin version, reads, “They interpret many things, spoken by the prophets, of this seed.”
[2747] Such appears to be the meaning of this sentence, but the original is very obscure. The writer seems to refer to the spiritual, the animal, and the material classes of men, and to imply that the Demiurge supposed some prophecies to be due to one of these classes, and some to the others.
[2748] Matt. viii. 9; Luke vii. 8.
[2749] As was the case at first, in Adam.
Chapter VIII.—How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own pious opinions.
[2750] Literally, “reading from things unwritten.”
[2753] 1 Cor. xi. 10. Irenæus here reads κάλυμμα, veil, instead of ἐξουσίαν, power, as in the received text. [An interesting fact, as it betokens an old gloss, which may have slipped into the text of some ancient mss.]
[2757] John xii. 27. The Valentinians seem, for their own purposes, to have added οὐκ οἶδα to this text.
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