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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[3222] “Suffugatur:” some read “suffocatur;” and Harvey proposes “suffragatur,” as the representative of the Greek ψηφίζεται. The meaning in any case is, that while ideas are instantaneously formed in the human mind, they can be expressed through means of words only fractionally, and by successive utterances.
[3223] Thus: Bythus, Nous, Logos.
[3225] Mark xiii. 32. The words, “neither the angels which are in heaven,” are here omitted, probably because, as usual, the writer quotes from memory.
[3226] Comp. Matt. x. 24;Luke xi. 40.
[3231] Massuet proposes to insert these words, and some such supplement seems clearly necessary to complete the sense. But the sentence still remains confused and doubtful.
[3232] [Gen. xl. 8;Deut. xxix. 29; Ps. 131]
[3234] [On the great matter of the περιχώρησις, the subordination of the Son, etc., Bull has explored Patristic doctrine, and may well be consulted here. Defens. Fid. Nicænæ, sect. iv.; see also vol. v. 363]
[3236] “Altitudines,” literally, heights.
[3237] [Wisdom ix. 13, 17. A passage of marvellous beauty.]
Chapter XXIX.—Refutation of the views of the heretics as to the future destiny of the soul and body.
[3238] Comp. i. 7, 1.
[3239] “Refrigerium,” place of refreshment.
[3240] Billius, with great apparent reason, proposes to read “descensio” for the unintelligible “discessio” of the Latin text.
[3241] Grabe and Massuet read, “Si autem animæ perire inciperent, nisi justæ fuissent,” for “Si autem animæ quæ perituræ essent inciperent nisi justæ fuissent,”—words which defy all translation.
[3242] The text is here uncertain and confused; but, as Harvey remarks, “the argument is this, That if souls are saved qua intellectual substance, then all are saved alike; but if by reason of any moral qualities, then the bodies that have executed the moral purposes of the soul, must also be considered to be heirs of salvation.”
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