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
514 V. xxviii. 2. Cujus adventum Joannes in Apocalypsi significavit ita:
“Et bestia quam videram, similis erat pardo.... Si quis gladio
occiderit, oportet eum in gladio occidi. Hic est sustinentia et
fides sanctorum.” Post deinde et de armigero ejus, quem et
pseudoprophetam vocat: “Loquebatur,” inquit, “quasi draco, et
potestatem primæ bestiæ omnem faciebat in conspectu ejus: et facit
terram, et qui habitant in ea, ut adorarent bestiam primam, cujus
curata est plaga mortis ejus. Et faciet signa magna, ut et ignem
faciat de cœlo descendere in terram in conspectu hominum, et seducet
inhabitantes super terram.” Hæc ne quis eum divina virtute putet
signa facere, sed magica operatione. Et non est mirandum, si
dæmoniis et apostaticis spiritibus ministrantibus ei, per eos faciat
signa, in quibus seducat habitantes super terram. “Et imaginem,”
ait, “jubebit fieri bestiæ, et spiritum dabit imagini, uti et
loquatur imago, et eos qui non adoraverint eam, faciet occidi. Et
characterem autem,” ait, “in fronte, et in manu dextra faciet dari,
ut non possit aliquis emere vel vendere, nisi qui habet characterem
nominis bestiæ, vel numerum nominis ejus; et esse numerum sexcentos
sexaginta sex, quod est, sexies centeni, et deni sexies, et
singulares sex;” in recapitulationem universæ apostasiæ ejus, quæ
facta est in sex millibus annorum.
515 V. xxx. 1. Καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ζημία ἐν τῷ ἀποτυχεῖν τῆς ἀληθείας, καὶ τὸ
μὴ ὂν ὡς ὂν ὑπολαβεῖν· ἔπειτα δὲ τοῦ προσθέντος ἢ ἀφελόντος τι τῆς
γραφῆς, ἐπιτιμίαν οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν ἔχοντος, εἰς αὐτὴν ἐμπεσεῖν ἀνάγκη
τὸν τοιοῦτον. ἐπακολουθήσει δὲ καὶ ἕτερος οὐχ ὁ τυχὼν κίνδυνος τοῖς
ψευδῶς προειληφόσιν εἰδέναι τὸ τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου ὄνομα· εἰ γὰρ ἄλλο
μὲν οὗτοι δοκοῦσιν, ἄλλο δὲ ἐκεῖνος ἔχων ἐλεύσεται, ῥᾳδίως
ἐξαπατηθήσονται παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ· ὡς μηδέπου παρόντος ἐκείνου, ὃν
φυλάσσεσθαι προσήκει.
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