Irenæus

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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies

^[4469] We have adopted here the explanation of Massuet, who considers the preceding period as merely parenthetical. Both Grabe and Harvey, however, would make conjectural emendations in the text, which seem to us to be inadmissible.

^[4470] The ancients erroneously supposed that the arteries were air-vessels, from the fact that these organs, after death, appear quite empty, from all the blood stagnating in the veins when death supervenes.

Chapter V.—The prolonged life of the ancients, the translation of Elijah and of Enoch in their own bodies, as well as the preservation of Jonah, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the midst of extreme peril, are clear demonstrations that God can raise up our bodies to life eternal.

^[4471] Gen. ii. 8.

^[4472] 2 Cor. xii. 4.

^[4473] Jon. ii. 11.

^[4474] Dan. iii. 19-25.

^[4475] Luke xviii. 27.

Chapter VI.—God will bestow salvation upon the whole nature of man, consisting of body and soul in close union, since the Word took it upon Him, and adorned with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, of whom our bodies are, and are termed, the temples.

^[4476] 1 Cor. ii. 6.

^[4477] The old Latin has “audivimus,” have heard.

^[4478] 1 Thess. v. 23. [I have before referred the student to the “Biblical Psychology” of Prof. Delitzsch (translation), T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1868.]

^[4479] 1 Cor. iii. 16.

^[4480] John ii. 19-21.

^[4481] 1 Cor. iii. 17.

^[4482] 1 Cor. vi. 13, 14.

Chapter VII.—Inasmuch as Christ did rise in our flesh, it follows that we shall be also raised in the same; since the resurrection promised to us should not be referred to spirits naturally immortal, but to bodies in themselves mortal.

^[4483] John xx. 20, 25-27.

^[4484] 1 Cor. vi. 14.

^[4485] Rom. viii. 11.

^[4486] Ps. xxii. 31, LXX.

^[4487] 1 Cor. xv. 42.

^[4488] 1 Cor. xv. 36.

^[4489] 1 Cor. xv. 43.

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