Irenæus

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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

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.

^[3851] John viii. 56.

^[3852] Rom. iv. 3.

^[3853] Phil. ii. 15.

^[3854] Gen. xxii. 6.

^[3855] John viii. 56.

^[3856] Gen. xiv. 22.

Chapter VI.—Explanation of the words of Christ, “No man knoweth the Father, but the Son,” etc.; which words the heretics misinterpret. Proof that, by the Father revealing the Son, and by the Son being revealed, the Father was never unknown.

^[3857] Matt. xi. 27; Luke x. 22.

^[3858] Not now to be found in Mark’s Gospel.

^[3859] Photius, 125, makes mention of Justin Martyr’s work, λόγοι κατὰ Μαρκίωνος. See also Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History, book iv. c. 18, where this passage of Irenæus is quoted. [The vast importance of Justin’s startling remark is that it hinges on the words of Christ Himself, concerning His antecedents and notes as set forth in the Scriptures, St. John v. 30-39.]

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