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
462 Bingham, _Antiquities_, XX. ii. 3. “St. Austin, or whoever was the
author of the _Sermons de Tempore_, (_Hom._ 251, _de Tempore_, T.
10, p. 307.) says, ‘The Apostles transferred the observation of the
Sabbath to the Lord’s day.’ ”——Clement of Alexandria gives
indications of the same idea, where he says that “to all appearance
the eighth day is likely to become the proper seventh day, and the
seventh the sixth; so that the former will be the proper sabbath,
and the seventh a working day.”—Κινδυνεύει γὰρ ἡ μὲν ὀγδοὰς ἑβδομάς
εἶναι κυρίως, ἑξὰς δὲ ἡ ἑβδομὰς κατά γε τὸ ἐμφανές· καὶ ἡ μὲν κυρίως
εἶναι σάββατον, ἐργάτις δὲ ἡ ἑβδομάς.
463 IV. xvi. 2. See p. 119, note 4. See also Justin Martyr, _Dial. cum
Tryph._ 19. 27. 43.
464 _Dial. cum Tryph._ 10. He represents Tryphon charging the Christians
with neglecting circumcision, the feasts, and the sabbath; which
charge he admits, and argues against the necessity of them.
465 Bingham’s _Antiquities_, XX. iii. 1.
466 Can. 29. Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ Χριστιανοὺς Ἰουδαΐζειν, καὶ ἐν τῷ σαββάτῳ
σχολάζειν, ἀλλὰ ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ· τὴν δὲ Κυριακὴν
προτιμῶντες, εἴγε δύναιντο, σχολάζειν ὡς Χριστιανοί. εἰ δὲ εὑρεθεῖεν
Ἰουδαïσταὶ, ἔστωσαν ἀνάθεμα παρὰ Χριστῷ.
467 Can. 49. Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ τῇ τεσσαρακοστῇ ἄρτον προσφέρειν, εἰ μὴ ἐν
Σαββάτῳ καὶ Κυριακῇ μόνον.
468 Gen. viii. 10. 12. xxix. 27.
469 See pp. 118, 119.
470 IV. xvi. 1. Hoc idem de sabbatis Ezechiel Propheta ait: “Et sabbata
mea dedi eis, ut sint in signo inter me et ipsos, ut sciant quoniam
ego Dominus, qui sanctifico eos.” Et in Exodo Deus ait ad Moysem:
“Et sabbata mea observabitis: erit enim signum apud me vobis in
generationes vestras.” In signo ergo data sunt hæc: non autem sine
symbolo erant signa, id est, sine argumento, neque otiosa, tanquam
quæ a sapiente Artifice darentur; sed secundum carnem circumcisio
circumcisionem significabat spiritalem. Etenim “nos,” ait Apostolus,
“circumcisi sumus circumcisione non manufacta.” Et Propheta ait:
“Circumcidite duritiam cordis vestri.” Sabbata autem perseverantiam
totius diei [i. e. _omni tempore_. See below] erga Deum
deservitionis edocebant. “Æstimati enim sumus,” ait Apostolus
Paulus, “tota die ut oves occisionis;” scilicet consecrati, et
ministrantes omni tempore fidei nostræ, et perseverantes ei, et
abstinentes ab omni avaritia, non acquirentes, nec possidentes
thesauros in terra. Manifestabatur autem et tanquam de [post] ea quæ
facta sunt requietio Dei; hoc est, Regnum, in quo requiescens homo
ille qui perseveraverit Deo adsistere, participabit de mensa Dei.
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