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
501 V. ix. 2. Quotquot autem timent Deum, et credunt in adventum Filii
ejus, et per fidem constituunt in cordibus suis Spiritum Dei, hi
tales juste homines dicentur, et mundi et spiritales et viventes
Deo; quia habent Spiritum Patris, qui emundat hominem et sublevat in
vitam Dei.... Infirmitas enim carnis absorpta potentem ostendit
spiritum; spiritus autem rursus absorbens infirmitatem, hæreditate
possidet carnem in se: et ex utrisque factus est vivens homo; vivens
quidem propter participationem Spiritus, homo autem propter
substantiam carnis.——3. Ubi autem Spiritus Patris ibi homo vivens,
sanguis rationalis ad ultionem a Deo custoditus, caro a Spiritu
possessa, oblita quidem sui, qualitatem autem spiritus assumens,
conformis facta Verbo Dei.
502 V. vii. 1. Et iterum ad Romanos ait: “Si autem Spiritus ejus qui
suscitavit Jesum a mortuis habitat in vobis, qui suscitavit Christum
a mortuis vivificabit et mortalia corpora vestra.”——2. Hæc sunt enim
corpora mortalia, id est, participantia animæ, quam cum amiserint,
mortificantur; deinde per Spiritum surgentia fiunt corpora
spiritualia, uti per Spiritum semper permanentem habeant vitam.
503 IV. xxvii. 2. Et propter hoc Dominum in ea, quæ sunt sub terra,
descendisse, evangelizantem et illis adventum suum; remissione
peccatorum exsistente his qui credunt in eum. Crediderunt autem in
eum omnes qui sperabant in eum, id est, qui adventum ejus
prænuntiaverunt, et dispositionibus ejus servierunt, justi et
prophetæ et patriarchæ; quibus similiter ut nobis remisit peccata.
Clem. Alex. _Strom._ VI. 6. § 44. Διόπερ ὁ Κύριος εὐηγγελίσατο καὶ
τοῖς ἐν Ἅιδου.——45. Φησὶ γοῦν ἡ γραφή· Λέγει ὁ Ἅιδης τῇ ἀπολείᾳ·
Εἶδος μὲν αὐτοῦ οὐκ εἴδομεν, φωνὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ ἠκούσαμεν.... Τί δ᾽ οὐχὶ
δηλοῦσιν εὐηγγελίσθαι τὸν Κύριον τοῖς τε ἀπολωλόσιν ἐν τῷ
κατακλυσμῷ, μᾶλλον δὲ πεπεδημένοις καὶ τοῖς ἐν φυλακῇ τε καὶ φρουρᾷ
συνεχομένοις.——Tertullian _de Anima_, 55. Christus Deus, quia et
homo, mortuus secundum Scripturas, et sepultus secus easdem, huic
quoque legi satisfecit, forma humanæ mortis apud inferos functus;
nec ante ascendit in sublimiora cœlorum, quam descendit in inferiora
terrarum, ut illic patriarchas et prophetas compotes sui
faceret.—See also Cyril of Jerusalem, _Catech._ xiv. 18, 19.
504 V. xxiv. 4. See p. 107, note 1.
505 Book V. chapter xxv. to the end.
506 The five last chapters of the Fifth Book are wanting in all but two
MSS.
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