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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

[4242] Harvey remarks here, that this can hardly be the same presbyter mentioned before, “who was only a hearer of those who had heard the apostles. Irenæus may here mean the venerable martyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna.”

[4243] “Quassum et futile.” The text varies much in the mss.

[4244] Gen. i. 3.

[4245] John i. 3.

[4246] Eph. iv. 5, 6.

[4247] Eph. iv. 16; Col. ii. 19.

[4248] “Constabit ei.”

[4249] We here read “secundum quos” with Massuet, instead of usual “secundum quod.”

[4250] “Concurvans,” corresponding to συγκάμπτων, which, says Harvey, “would be expressive of those who were brought under the law, as the neck of the steer is bent to the yoke.”

[4251] The Latin is, “per proprium visum.”

[4252] [If this and the former chapter seem to us superfluous, we must reflect that such testimony, from the beginning, has established the unity of Holy Scripture, and preserved to us—the Bible.]

Chapter XXXIII.—Whosoever confesses that one God is the author of both Testaments, and diligently reads the Scriptures in company with the presbyters of the Church, is a true spiritual disciple; and he will rightly understand and interpret all that the prophets have declared respecting Christ and the liberty of the New Testament.

[4253] 1 Cor. ii. 15. [The argument of this chapter hinges on Ps. xxv. 14, and expounds a difficult text of St. Paul. A man who has the mind of God’s Spirit is the only judge of spiritual things. Worldly men are incompetent critics of Scripture and of Christian exposition.

[4254] Rom. i. 21.

[4255] Isa. liii. 3.

[4256] Zech. ix. 9.

[4257] Ps. 118:22.

[4258] Isa. liii. 7.

[4259] Ex. xvii. 11.

[4260] Isa. xi. 12.

[4261] Comp. book iii. 20, 4.

[4262] Dan. vii. 13.

 

 

 

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