Irenæus

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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

^[2852] The text is here altogether uncertain: we have given the probable meaning.

^[2853] That is, the name of Soter, the perfect result of the whole Pleroma.

Chapter XV.—Sige relates to Marcus the generation of the twenty-four elements and of Jesus. Exposure of these absurdities.

^[2854] Manifestly to be so spelt here, as in the sequel Chreistus, for Christus.

^[2855] The text is here altogether uncertain, and the meaning obscure.

^[2856] The reading is exceedingly doubtful: some prefer the number eighty-eight.

^[2857] There were, as Harvey observes, three extraneous characters introduced into the Greek alphabet for the sake of numeration —the three episema for 6, 90, and 900 respectively. The true alphabet, then, as employed to denote number, included eight units, eight tens, and eight hundreds.

^[2858] Or, according to the Greek text, “being as the way to the Father;” comp.John xiv. 6.

^[2859] The text is here uncertain: we follow that suggested by Grabe.

^[2860] [Comp. cap. xi. 4, supra.]

^[2861] Comp. Gen. xxxi. 2. —We here follow the punctuation of Scaliger, now generally accepted by the editors, though entirely different from the old Latin.

^[2862] [Mosheim thinks this Marcus was a lunatic.]

^[2863] [Some think Pothinus.]

Chapter XVI.—Absurd interpretations of the Marcosians.

^[2864] Luke xv. 4.

^[2865] All the editors, Grabe, Massuet, Stieren, and Harvey, differ as to the text and interpretation of this sentence. We have given what seems the simplest rendering of the text as it stands.

^[2866] Referring to the last of the twelve Æons.

^[2867] Luke xv. 8.

^[2868] Meaning the Æon who left the Duodecad, when eleven remained, and not referring to the lost sheep of the parable.

^[2869] Harvey gives the above paraphrase of the very obscure original; others propose to read λ´ instead of λόγου.

^[2870] Massuet explains this and the following reference, by remarking that the ancients used the fingers of the hand in counting; by the left hand they indicated all the numbers below a hundred, but by the right hand all above that sum.—Comp. Juvenal, Sat., x. 249.

^[2871] Tit. iii. 10.

^[2872] 2 John 10, 11.

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