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Irenæus
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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[3173] Matt. xiv. 19, 21; Mark vi. 41, 44; Luke ix. 13, 14; John vi. 9, 10, 11.
[3174] Matt. xxv. 2, etc.
[3176] St. John is here strangely overlooked.
[3179] “Fines et summitates;” comp. Justin Mart., Dial. c. Tryph., 91.
[3180] “Juvenis,” one in the prime of life.
[3181] It has been usual in the Christian Church to reckon four commandments in the first table, and six in the second; but the above was the ancient Jewish division. See Joseph., Antiq., iii. 6.
[3183] Ex. xxvii. 1; “altitudo” in the text must be exchanged for “latitudo.”
[3187] [Note the manly contempt with which our author dismisses a class of similitudes, which seem, even in our day, to have great attractions for some minds not otherwise narrow.]
[3188] 365 (the days of the year)—12 х 30 + 5.
[3189] These hours of daylight, at the winter and summer solstice respectively, correspond to the latitude of Lyons, 45° 45´ N., where Irenæus resided.
[3190] “Alluding,” says Harvey, “to a custom among the ancients, of summing the numbers below 100 by various positions of the left hand and its fingers; 100 and upwards being reckoned by corresponding gestures of the right hand. The ninety and nine sheep, therefore, that remained quietly in the fold were summed upon the left hand, and Gnostics professed that they were typical of the true spiritual seed; but Scripture always places the workers of iniquity of the left hand, and in the Gnostic theory the evil principle of matter was sinistral, therefore,” etc., as above.
[3191] “Levamen,” corresponding probably to the Greek ἀνάπαυσιν.
[3192] ᾽Αγάπη ( α = 1, γ = 3, α = 1, π = 80, η = 8 ) = 93.
[3193] ᾽Αλήθεια ( α = 1, λ = 30, η = 8, θ = 9, ε = 5, ι = 10, α = 1 ) = 64.
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