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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

[4126] This spurious quotation has been introduced before. See book iii. 20. 4.

[4127] Eph. iv. 9.

[4128] So Harvey understands the obscure Latin text, “id quod erat inoperatum conditionis.”

[4129] Matt. xiii. 17.

[4130] Rom. iii. 30.

Chapter XXIII.—The patriarchs and prophets by pointing out the advent of Christ, fortified thereby, as it were, the way of posterity to the faith of Christ; and so the labours of the apostles were lessened inasmuch as they gathered in the fruits of the labours of others.

[4131] John iv. 35, etc.

[4132] Matt. i. 20, etc.

[4133] Luke iv. 18.

[4134] Isa. lxi. 1.

[4135] Acts viii. 27;Isa. liii. 7.

[4136] Acts ii. 41, Acts iv. 4.

Chapter XXIV.—The conversion of the Gentiles was more difficult than that of the Jews; the labours of those apostles, therefore who engaged in the former task, were greater than those who undertook the latter.

[4137] 1 Cor. xv. 10.

[4138] [A clear note of recognition on the part of our author, that St. Paul’s mission was world-wide, while St. Peter’s was limited.]

[4139] Eph. i. 21.

[4140] Phil. ii. 8.

Chapter XXV.—Both covenants were prefigured in Abraham, and in the labour of Tamar; there was, however, but one and the same God to each covenant.

[4141] Matt. iii. 9.

[4142] Eph. ii. 20.

[4143] [Note, the Gentile Church was the old religion and was Catholic; in Christ it became Catholic again: the Mosaic system was a parenthetical thing of fifteen hundred years only. Such is the luminous and clarifying scheme of Irenæus, expounding St. Paul (Gal. iii. 14-20). Inferences: (1) They who speak as if the Mosaic system covered the whole Old Testament darken the divine counsels. (2) The God of Scripture was never the God of the Jews only.]

[4144] Gen. xxxviii. 28, etc.

[4145] John iv. 37.

[4146] 1 Cor. iii. 7.

 

 

 

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