An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons and Martyr: Intended to Illustrate the Doctrine, Discipline, Practices, and History of the Church, and the Tenets and Practices of the Gnostic Heretics During the Second CenturyBeaven, James
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An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons and Martyr: Intended to Illustrate the Doctrine, Discipline, Practices, and History of the Church, and the Tenets and Practices of the Gnostic Heretics During the Second Century
Beaven, James
Gnosticism; Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop of Lyon; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
263 III. xxiii. 3. Non homini principaliter præparatus est æternus
ignis, sed ei qui seduxit et offendere fecit hominem, et, inquam,
qui princeps apostasiæ est, et his angelis qui apostatæ factæ sunt
cum eo: quem quidem juste percipient etiam hi, qui, similiter ut
illi, sine pœnitentia et sine regressu in malitiæ perseverant
operibus.
264 II. xxviii. 7. Quoniam præsciit Deus hoc futurum ... ignem æternum
his qui transgressuri sunt præparavit ab initio.—V. xxvi. 2. Omnes
qui falso dicuntur esse Gnostici organa Satanæ ab omnibus Deum
colentibus cognoscantur esse, per quos Satanas nunc, et non ante,
visus est maledicere Deo, qui ignem æternum præparavit omni
apostasiæ. Nam ipse per semetipsum nude non audet blasphemare suum
Dominum; quemadmodum et initio per serpentem seduxit hominem, quasi
latens Deum. Καλῶς ὁ Ἰουστίνος ἔφη, ὅτι πρὸ μὲν τῆς τοῦ Κυρίου
παρουσίας οὐδέποτε ἐτόλμησεν ὁ Σατανᾶς βλασφημῆσαι τὸν Θεὸν, ἅτε
μηδέπω εἰδὼς αὑτοῦ τὴν κατάκρισιν· quoniam et in parabolis, et
allegoriis, a Prophetis de eo sic dictum est. Post autem adventum
Domini ex sermonibus Christi et Apostolorum ejus discens manifeste,
quoniam ignis æternus ei præparatus est ex sua voluntate abscedenti
a Deo, et omnibus qui sine pœnitentia perseverant in apostasia; per
hujusmodi homines blasphemat eum Deum, qui judicium importat, quasi
jam condemnatus, et peccatum suæ apostasiæ Conditori suo imputat, et
non suæ voluntati et sententiæ: quemadmodum et qui supergrediuntur
leges, et pœnas dant, queruntur de legislatoribus, sed non de
semetipsis. Sic autem et hi diabolico spiritu pleni, innumeras
accusationes inferunt Factori nostro, qui et Spiritum vitæ nobis
donaverit, et legem omnibus aptam posuerit; et nolunt justum esse
judicium Dei.
265 V. xxvi. 2.
266 IV. xxxvi. 4. Et temporibus Noë diluvium inducens, uti extingueret
pessimum genus eorum, qui tunc erant homines, qui jam fructificare
Deo non poterant, cum angeli transgressores commixti fuissent
eis.——xvi. 2. Sed et Enoch sine circumcisione placens Deo, cum esset
homo, legatione ad angelos fungebatur, et conservatur usque nunc
testis justi judicii Dei: quoniam angeli quidem transgressi
deciderunt in terram in judicium, homo autem placens translatus est
in salutem.
The nature of the intercourse or commixture is not indeed stated by
Irenæus; but, as Feuardent and Grabe have pointed out in commenting
on these passages, he is evidently alluding to the tradition spoken
of more fully by Josephus, Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, and Clement
of Alexandria, whose words I subjoin.
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