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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

[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.

[4147] Jer. ix. 2. [A “remote dwelling-place” rather (σταθμὸν ἔσχατον according to LXX.) to square with the argument.]

[4148] [The touching words which conclude the former paragraph are illustrated by the noble sentence which begins this paragraph. The childlike spirit of these Fathers recognises Christ everywhere, in the Old Testament, prefigured by countless images and tokens in paternal and legal (ceremonial) forms.]

Chapter XXVI.—The treasure hid in the Scriptures is Christ; the true exposition of the Scriptures is to be found in the Church alone.

[4149] Matt. xiii. 44.

[4150] Matt. xiii. 38.

[4151] Harvey cancels “non,” and reads the sentence interrogatively.

[4152] Dan. xii. 4, 7.

[4153] Jer. xxiii. 20.

[4154] The Latin is “a multis justis,” corresponding to the Greek version of the Hebrew text. If the translation be supposed as corresponding to the Hebrew comparative, the English equivalent will be, “and above (more than) many righteous.”

[4155] Dan. xii. 3.

 

 

 

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