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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

[2945] [I note again this “Americanism.”]

[2946] Such seems to be the meaning of the Latin, but the original text is conjectural.

[2947] [See cap. xxvii. 3.]

[2948] The text is here defective, but the above meaning seems to be indicated by Epiphanius.

[2949] Rom. iii. 8.

[2950] [Isa. v. 20. Horne Tooke derives our word Truth from what any one troweth.]

[2951] The text here has greatly puzzled the editors. We follow the simple emendation proposed by Harvey.

[2952] Matt. v. 25, 26; Luke xii. 58, 59.

[2953] The meaning is here very doubtful, but Tertullian understood the words as above. If sinning were a necessity, then it could no longer be regarded as evil.

[2954] [This censure of images as a Gnostic peculiarity, and as a heathenish corruption, should be noted.]

Chapter XXVI.—Doctrines of Cerinthus, the Ebionites, and Nicolaitanes.

[2955] We here follow the text as preserved by Hippolytus. The Latin has, “a certain man in Asia.”

[2956] [This is disputed by other primitive authorities.]

[2957] Rev. ii. 6.

Chapter XXVII.—Doctrines of Cerdo and Marcion.

[2958] [Comp. cap. xxv. 3.]

[2959] We here follow the amended version proposed by the Benedictine editor.

[2960] A promise never fulfilled: comp. book iii. 12, and Euseb., Hist. Eccl., v. 8.

[2961] [Rev. xii. 9.]

Chapter XXVIII.—Doctrines of Tatian, the Encratites, and others.

[2962] [The whole casuistical system of the Trent divines, De Matrimonio, proceeds on this principle: marriage is licensed evil.]

Chapter XXIX.—Doctrines of various other Gnostic sects, and especially of the Barbeliotes or Borborians.

[2963] Harvey supposes this name to be derived from two Syriac words, meaning “God in a Tetrad.” Matter again derives it from two Hebrew words, denoting “Daughter of the Lord.”

[2964] Both the text and meaning are here altogether doubtful.

[2965] Harvey refers to the cabbalistic books in explanation of this and the following names, but their meanings are very uncertain.

 

 

 

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