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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[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.]
[4370] Jude 7. [And note “strange flesh” (Gr. σαρκὸς ἑτέρας) as to the angels. Gen. xix. 4, 5.]
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