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
498 V. xxxi. 2. Si ergo Dominus legem mortuorum servavit, ut fieret
primogenitus a mortuis, et commoratus usque in tertiam diem in
inferioribus terræ; post deinde surgens in carne, ut etiam fixuras
clavorum ostenderet discipulis, sic ascendit ad Patrem; quomodo non
confundantur, qui dicunt inferos quidem esse hunc mundum, qui sit
secundum nos; interiorem autem hominem ipsorum derelinquentem hic
corpus, in supercœlestem ascendere locum? Cum enim Dominus “in medio
umbræ mortis abierit,” ubi animæ mortuorum erant, post deinde
corporaliter resurrexit, et post resurrectionem assumptus est;
manifestum est quia et discipulorum ejus, propter quos et hæc
operatus est Dominus, Αἱ ψυχαὶ ἀπέρχονται εἰς τὸν τόπον invisibilem
τὸν ὡρισμένον αὐταῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, κἀκεῖ μέχρι τῆς ἀναστάσεως
φοιτῶσι, περιμένουσαι τὴν ἀνάστασιν· ἔπειτα ἀπολαβοῦσαι τὰ σώματα,
καὶ ὀλοκλήρως ἀναστᾶσαι, τουτέστι σωματικῶς, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Κύριος
ἀνέστη, οὕτως ἐλεύσονται εἰς τὴς ὄψιν τοῦ Θεοῦ. “Nemo enim est
discipulus super magistrum: perfectus autem omnis erit sicut
magister ejus.” Quomodo ergo Magister noster non statim evolans
abiit, sed sustinens definitum a Patre resurrectionis suæ tempus,
(quod et per Jonam manifestatum est,) post triduum resurgens
assumptus est; sic et nos sustinere debemus definitum a Deo
resurrectionis nostræ tempus, prænuntiatum a Prophetis, et sic
resurgentes assumi, quotquot Dominus ad hoc dignos habuerit.——So
Clement of Rome (_Ad Corr._ I. 50) affirms that “they who have
departed, fully established in love, enjoy the place of the
just”—χώραν εὐσεβῶν.
499 V. v. 1. Ὅπουγε Ἐνὼχ εὐαρεστήσας τῷ Θεῷ, ἐν σώματι μετετέθη, τὴν
μετάθεσιν τῶν δικαίων προμηνύων· καὶ Ἡλίας, ὡς ἦν, ἐν τῇ τοῦ
πλάσματος ὑποστάσει ἀνελήφθη, τὴν ἀνάληψιν τῶν πνευματικῶν
προφητεύων, κ.τ.λ. ... Διὸ καὶ λέγουσιν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι, τῶν
ἀποστόλων μαθηταὶ, τοὺς μετατεθέντας ἐκεῖσε [that is, to paradise]
μετατεθῆναι· (δικαίοις γὰρ ἀνθρώποις καὶ πνευματοφόροις ἠτοιμάσθη ὁ
παράδεισος, ἐν ᾧ καὶ Παῦλος ἀπόστολος εἰσκομισθεὶς ἤκουσεν ἄρῥητα
ῥήματα, ὡς πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ παρόντι·) κἀκεῖ μένειν τοὺς μετατεθέντας
ἕως συντελείας, προοιμιαζομένους τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν.
500 III. xix. 3. Ut quemadmodum caput resurrexit a mortuis, sic et
reliquum corpus omnis hominis, qui invenitur in vita, impleto
tempore condemnationis ejus, quæ erat propter inobedientiam,
resurgat.
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