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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[2782] Tertullian refers (Præscrip. Hær.) to those Homeric centos of which a specimen follows. We have given each line as it stands in the original: the text followed by Irenæus differs slightly from the received text.
[2783] Literally, “immoveable in himself,” the word ἀκλινῆ being used with an apparent reference to the original meaning of κανόνα, a builder’s rule.
[2784] The meaning of the word ἀπολύτρωσις here is not easily determined; but it is probably a scenic term equivalent to ἀπόλυσις, and may be rendered as above.
[2785] [The Creed, in the sublime simplicity of its fundamental articles, is established; that is, by the impossibility of framing anything to take their place.]
Chapter X.—Unity of the faith of the Church throughout the whole world.
[2786] “ Of God” is added from the old Latin
[2790] Probably referring to the Churches in Palestine.
[2791] The text here is ἀρκουμένους τούτους, which is manifestly corrupt. Various emendations have been proposed: we prefer reading ἀρκούμενος τούτοις, and have translated accordingly.
[2793] Irenæus here reads πάντα instead of πάντας, as in Text. Rec. of New Testament.
[2794] εὐχαριστεῖν— this word has been deemed corrupt, as it certainly appears out of keeping with the other verbs; but it may be rendered as above.
[2796] Hos. ii. 23;Rom. ix. 25.
[2797] Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
Chapter XI.—The opinions of Valentinus, with those of his disciples and others.
[2799] That is, the first of the two or three here referred to, not the first of the Gnostic teachers, as some have imagined. [The Gnosticism of one age may be essentially the same in spirit as the Agnosticism of another.]
[2800] Viz., all outside of the Pleroma.
[2801] Corrected from Ecclesia in the text.
[2802] Some have supposed that the name of this teacher was Epiphanes, and that the old Latin mistakenly translates this by clarus; others think that Colorbasus is the teacher in question.
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