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
pronuntiabimus, hoc eum nomen habiturum: scientes, quoniam si
oporteret manifeste præsenti tempore præconari nomen ejus, per ipsum
utique editum fuisset, qui et Apocalypsim viderat.
518 V. xxx. 4. Cum autem vastaverit Antichristus hic omnia in hoc mundo,
regnans annis tribus et mensibus sex, et sederit in templo
Hierosolymis; tunc veniet Dominus de cœlis in nubibus in gloria
Patris, illum quidem et obedientes ei in stagnum ignis mittens;
adducens autem justis Regni tempora, hoc est, requietionem, septimam
diem sanctificatam; et restituens Abrahæ promissionem hæreditatis:
in quo Regno ait Dominus, multos ab Oriente et Occidente venientes,
recumbere cum Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob.——Ibid. xxxiii. 2. See p.
215, note 2.
519 V. xxviii. 3. See p. 215, note 1.
The very ancient writer under the name of Barnabas, contemporary at
least with Justin Martyr, says, (_Epist._ § 11.) Προσέχετε, τέκνα,
τί λέγει τό· Συνετέλεσεν ἐν ἓξ ἡμέραις. Τοῦτο λέγει ὅτι συντελεῖ
Κύριος ἐν ἑξακισχιλίοις ἔτεσι τὰ πάντα.
520 V. xxx. 4. xxxiii. 2.
521 V. xxxii. 1. Quoniam igitur transferuntur quorundam sententiæ ab
hæreticis sermonibus, et sunt ignorantes dispositiones Dei et
mysterium justorum resurrectionis et Regni quod est principium
incorruptelæ, per quod regnum qui digni fuerint paulatim assuescunt
capere Deum; necessarium est autem dicere de illis quoniam oportet
justos primos in conditione hac quæ renovatur, ad apparitionem Dei
resurgentes, recipere promissionem hæreditatis quam Deus promisit
patribus, et regnare in ea; post deinde fieri judicium. In qua enim
conditione laboraverunt sive afflicti sunt, omnibus modis probati
per sufferentiam, justum est in ipsa recipere eos fructus
sufferentiæ.... Oportet ergo et ipsam conditionem, reintegratam ad
pristinum, sine prohibitione servire justis.——xxxiii. 4. Hæc ergo
tempora prophetans Esaias ait: “Et compascetur lupus cum agno, et
pardus conquiescet cum hædo, et vitulus et taurus et leo simul
pascentur, et puer pusillus ducet eos. Et bos et ursus simul
pascentur, et simul infantes eorum erunt: et leo et bos manducabunt
paleas. Et puer infans in cavernam aspidum, et in cubile filiorum
aspidum manum mittet; et non male facient, nec poterunt perdere
aliquem in monte sancto meo.” Et iterum recapitulans ait: “Tunc lupi
et agni pascentur simul, et leo quasi bos vescetur paleis, serpens
autem terram quasi panem: et non nocebunt neque vexabunt in monte
sancto meo, dicit Dominus.” Non ignoro autem, quoniam quidam hæc in
feros, et ex diversis gentibus et variis operibus credentes, et cum
crediderint consentientes justis, tentent transferre. Sed etsi nunc
hoc sit in quibusdam hominibus, ex variis gentibus in unam
sententiam fidei venientibus, nihilominus in resurrectione justorum
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