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
276 IV. xiv. 2. Sic et Deus ab initio hominem quidem plasmavit propter
suam munificentiam; Patriarchas vero elegit propter illorum salutem;
populum vero præformabat, docens indocibilem, sequi Deum; Prophetas
vero præstruebat in terra, assuescens hominem portare ejus Spiritum,
et communionem habere cum Deo: ipse quidem nullius indigens; his
vero qui indigent ejus, suam præbens communionem; et his qui ei
complacebant, fabricationem salutis, ut architectus, delineans, et
non videntibus in Ægypto a semetipso dans ducationem; et his qui
inquieti erant in eremo dans aptissimam legem, et his qui in bonam
terram introierunt, dignam præbens hæreditatem; et his qui
convertuntur ad Patrem, saginatum occidens vitulum, et primam stolam
donans; multis modis componens humanum genus ad consonantiam
salutis. Et propter hoc Joannes in Apocalypsi ait: “Et vox ejus
quasi vox aquarum multarum.” Vere enim aquæ multæ Spiritus, quoniam
dives, et quoniam magnus est Pater. Et per omnes illos transiens
Verbum, sine invidia utilitatem præstabat eis qui subjecti sibi
erant, omni conditioni congruentem et aptam legem conscribens.——xvi.
3. Cum autem hæc justitia et dilectio, quæ erat erga Deum, cessit in
oblivionem, et extincta esset in Ægypto, necessario Deus propter
multam suam erga homines benevolentiam semetipsum ostendebat per
vocem, et eduxit de Ægypto populum in virtute, uti rursus fieret
homo discipulus et sectator Dei; et affligebat indictoaudientes,
[dicto non audientes, contumaces] ut non contemnerent eum qui se
fecit; et manna cibavit eum, uti rationalem acciperent escam,
quemadmodum et Moyses in Deuteronomio ait: “Et cibavit te manna,
quod non sciebant patres tui, uti cognoscas, quoniam non in pane
solo vivit homo, sed in omni verbo Dei, quod procedit de ore ejus,
vivit homo.” Et erga Deum dilectionem præcipiebat, et eam quæ ad
proximum est justitiam insinuabat, ut nec injustus, nec indignus sit
Deo; præstruens hominem per Decalogum in suam amicitiam, et eam quæ
circa proximum est concordiam; (quæ quidem ipsi proderant homini;)
nihil tamen indigente Deo ab homine.
277 IV. xiv. 2.
278 This is the argument of the first twenty chapters of the fourth
book, and the quotations are too copious and diffuse to be given at
length. A few, therefore, must suffice.
IV. ii. 7. Non enim Lex prohibebat eos credere in Filium Dei, sed et
adhortabatur, dicens non aliter salvari homines ab antiqua serpentis
plaga, nisi credant in eum qui secundum similitudinem carnis peccati
in ligno martyrii exaltatur a terra, et omnia trahit ad se, et
vivificat mortuos.—He alludes to the brazen serpent exhibited on a
pole in the wilderness.
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