Irenæus

Footnotes

Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

^[3424] The Greek of this passage in St. Mark i. 2 reads, τὰς τρίβους αὐτοῦ, i.e., His paths, which varies from the Hebrew original, to which the text of Irenæus seems to revert, unless indeed his copy of the Gospels contained the reading of the Codex Bezæ. [See book iii. cap. xii. 3, 14, below; also, xiv. 2 and xxiii. 3. On this Codex, see Burgon, Revision Revised, p. 12, etc., and references.]

^[3425] Luke i. 17.

^[3426] See ii. 35, 3.

^[3427] Mark xvi. 19.

^[3428] Ps. 110:1.

Chapter XI—Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John’s Gospel. The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this.

^[3429] Irenæus frequently quotes this text, and always uses the punctuation here adopted. Tertullian and many others of the Fathers follow his example.

^[3430] John i. 1, etc.

^[3431] See ii. 1, etc.

^[3432] John i. 10, 11.

^[3438] This evidently refers to 1 Kings xviii. 36, where Elijah invokes God as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, etc.

^[3439] Matt. xi. 9; Luke vii. 26.

^[3440] 1 Cor. xii. 28.

^[3441] The transition here is so abrupt, that some critics suspect the loss of part of the text before these words.