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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[4349] This is following Harvey’s conjectural emendation of the text, viz., “taleis” for “talis.” He considers the pins here as symbolical of the nails by which our Lord was fastened to the cross. The whole passage is almost hopelessly obscure, though the general meaning may be guessed.
[4351] [If it be remembered that we know Irenæus here, only through a most obscure Latin rendering, we shall be slow to censure this conclusion.]
[4353] Book i. p. 334, this volume.
[4354] Illorum; following the Greek form of the comparative degree.
Chapter XXXVI.—The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent.
[4358] Jer. vii. 3;Zech. vii. 9, 10, Zech. viii. 17; Isa. i. 17-19.
[4364] Luke xvii. 26, etc.
[4366] No other of the Greek Fathers quotes this text as above; from which fact Grabe infers that old Latin translator, or his transcribers, altered the words of Irenæus [N.B.—From one example infer the rest] to suit the Latin versions.
[4369] This is Massuet’s conjectural emendation of the text, viz., archetypum for arcætypum. Grabe would insert per before arcæ, and he thinks the passage to have a reference to 1 Pet. iii. 20. Irenæus, in common with the other ancient Fathers, believed that the fallen angels were the “sons of God” who commingled with “the daughters of men,” and thus produced a race of spurious men. [Gen. vi. 1, 2, 3, and Josephus.]
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