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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

[4437] Ps. 149:5.

[4438] Isa. i. 2.

[4439] Ps. xviii. 45.

[4440] Ps. lviii. 3, 4.

[4441] Matt. xxiii. 33.

[4442] Matt. xvi. 6.

[4443] Luke xiii. 32.

[4444] Ps. xlix. 21.

[4445] Jer. v. 8.

[4446] Isa. i. 10.

[4447] Isa. i. 16.

[4448] Matt. xxv. 41, Matt. xiii. 38.

Preface.

[4449] Ex ratione universis ostensionibus procedente. The words are very obscure.

Chapter I.—Christ alone is able to teach divine things, and to redeem us: He, the same, took flesh of the Virgin Mary, not merely in appearance, but actually, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, in order to renovate us. Strictures on the conceits of Valentinus and Ebion.

[4450] Rom. xi. 34.

[4451] “Initium facturæ,” which Grabe thinks should be thus translated with reference to Jas. i. 18.

[4452] [Compare Clement, cap. 49, p. 18, this volume.]

[4453] Luke i. 35.

[4454] In allusion to the mixture of water in the eucharistic cup, as practised in these primitive times. The Ebionites and others used to consecrate the element of water alone.

[4455] 1 Cor. xv. 22.

[4456] Viz., the Son and the Spirit.

[4457] John i. 13.

Chapter II.—When Christ visited us in His grace, He did not come to what did not belong to Him: also, by shedding His true blood for us, and exhibiting to us His true flesh in the Eucharist, He conferred upon our flesh the capacity of salvation.

 

 

 

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