Irenæus

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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

^[3831] Ps. 102:25-28. The cause of the difference in the numbering of the Psalms is that the Septuagint embraces in one psalm—the ninth—the two which form the ninth and tenth in the Hebrew text.

^[3832] Isa. li. 6.

Chapter IV.—Answer to another objection, showing that the destruction of Jerusalem, which was the city of the great King, diminished nothing from the supreme majesty and power of God, for that this destruction was put in execution by the most wise counsel of the same God.

^[3833] Matt. v. 35.

^[3834] [Jer. vii. 4. One of the most powerful arguments in all Scripture is contained in the first twelve verses of this chapter, and it rebukes an inveterate superstition of the human heart. Comp. Rev. ii. 5, and the message to Rome, Rom. xi. 21.]

^[3835] Isa. xxvii. 6.

^[3836] Luke xvi. 16.

^[3837] 2 Sam. v. 7, where David is described as taking the stronghold of Zion from the Jebusites.

^[3838] The text fluctuates between “legis dationem” and “legis dationis.” We have followed the latter.

^[3839] Isa. i. 8.

^[3840] Mal. iv. 1.

^[3841] Matt. iii. 11, etc.

^[3842] Ps. xlix. 12.

Chapter V.—The author returns to his former argument, and shows that there was but one God announced by the law and prophets, whom Christ confesses as His Father, and who, through His word, one living God with Him, made Himself known to men in both covenants.

^[3843] Eph. ii. 7.

^[3844] Isa. xliii. 10, etc.

^[3845] Isa. xii. 4.

^[3846] Matt. xxii. 29.

^[3847] Matt. xxii. 29, etc.; Ex. iii. 6.

^[3848] In the Septuagint and Vulgate versions, this story constitutes the fourteenth chapter of the book of Daniel. It is not extant in Hebrew, and has therefore been removed to the Apocrypha, in the Anglican canon [the Greek and St. Jerome’s] of Scripture, under the title of “Bel and the Dragon.”

^[3849] John xi. 25.

^[3850] Ps. xlv. 16.

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