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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Beaven, James

Beaven, James

Gnosticism; Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop of Lyon; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600

The term Irenæus uses (I. v. 1.) is ψυχικός. Its meaning is not easy
      to express by another word. Valentinus, like the Platonists and
      several of the early Christian writers, believed in three kinds of
      substance, πνευματικὴ, ψυχικὴ, σωματικὴ, analogous to the three
      parts of man, spirit, soul, and body; the first of which he
      conceived to be naturally and necessarily immortal, the third
      necessarily perishable, the second capable of either immortality or
      destruction, but having a kind of life, as long as it existed, which
      the third had not.

I. v. 1.

Ibid. 2.

Valentinus himself appears to have made man the joint work of the
      Creator and the other Angels. See a fragment of one of his letters,
      preserved by Clem. Alex. _Strom._ II. 8. § 36.

I. v. 3, 4.

Ibid. 5.

This was recognised by Valentinus in the fragment above cited.

I. v. 6.

I. vi. 1, 2.

Ibid. 3.

Tertull. _de Resur. Carnis_, 2, states this as the opinion of
      Valentinus, and _de Carne Christi_, 15. In the fragment, (Clem.
      Alex. _Strom._ III. 7. § 59,) Valentinus says that Jesus attained to
      divinity by his purity; which was such that his food did not corrupt
      within him.

I. vii. 2.

Ibid. 1.

_De Præscr._ 38.

Matt. xi. 27. See IV. vi. 1. But his followers preferred the Gospel
      of St. John (III. xi. 7), and some of them forged what they called
      the _Gospel of the Truth_. Ibid. 9.

_De Præscr._ 30.

I. i. 3. iii. viii.

_Strom._ II. 8. § 36. 20. § 114. III. 7. § 59. IV. 13. § 91. VI. 6.
      § 52.

Ibid. II. 20. § 114.

I. Præf. 2.

Epiphan. _Hær._ xxxi. 1.

I. xi. 2.

Clem. Alex. _Strom._ III. ii. § 5.

See Massuet, _Diss. Præv._ I. § 80.

Epiphan. xxxi. 1. xxxii. 3. Theodoret. _Hær. Fab._ I. 5.

Ibid.

I. xi. 3.

I. Præf. 2. viii. 5.

_Hær._ xxxiii. 1. Ὁ Πτολεμαῖος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. The passage he
      quotes is I. xii. 1.

_Hær._ xxxv. 1.

_Hær. Fab._ I. 12.

I. xii. 3.

I. xiii. 1. Magistri emendatorem se esse glorians.

_Adv. Valent._ 4.

I. xiii. 5. See p. 202, note 9.

Ibid.

I. xiv. 1.

Ibid.

I. xv. 3.

I. xiii. 3.

I. xiii. 2.

Ibid. 3.

I. xiii. 5. See p. 202, note 9.

Ibid. 6.

Ibid. 5. 7.

I. xxi. 1.

Ibid. 2.

Ibid. 1.

Ibid. 2.

Ibid. 1.

Ibid. 3.

I. xxi. 4.

Ibid. 5.

Irenæus (I. xxviii. 1) expressly says that they thought marriage to
      be pollution and whoredom, and (xxiv. 2) that it and its natural
      consequences were from Satan.

I. vi. 1, 2.

I. v. 2.

I. vi. 4. III. xv. 2.

I. vi. 1.

I. vi. 1.

I. vi. 2, 4.

I. vii. 1.

I. xxv. 5.

I. vi. 2.

_Strom._ II. 20. § 114.

I. xiii. 2.

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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

The term Irenæus uses (I. v. 1.) is ψυχικός. Its meaning is not easy
      to express by another word. Valentinus, like the Platonists and
      several of the early Christian writers, believed in three kinds of
      substance, πνευματικὴ, ψυχικὴ, σωματικὴ, analogous to the three
      parts of man, spirit, soul, and body; the first of which he
      conceived to be naturally and necessarily immortal, the third
      necessarily perishable, the second capable of either immortality or
      destruction, but having a kind of life, as long as it existed, which
      the third had not.

I. v. 1.

Ibid. 2.

Valentinus himself appears to have made man the joint work of the
      Creator and the other Angels. See a fragment of one of his letters,
      preserved by Clem. Alex. _Strom._ II. 8. § 36.

I. v. 3, 4.

Ibid. 5.

This was recognised by Valentinus in the fragment above cited.

I. v. 6.

I. vi. 1, 2.

Ibid. 3.

Tertull. _de Resur. Carnis_, 2, states this as the opinion of
      Valentinus, and _de Carne Christi_, 15. In the fragment, (Clem.
      Alex. _Strom._ III. 7. § 59,) Valentinus says that Jesus attained to
      divinity by his purity; which was such that his food did not corrupt
      within him.

I. vii. 2.

Ibid. 1.

_De Præscr._ 38.

Matt. xi. 27. See IV. vi. 1. But his followers preferred the Gospel
      of St. John (III. xi. 7), and some of them forged what they called
      the _Gospel of the Truth_. Ibid. 9.

_De Præscr._ 30.

I. i. 3. iii. viii.

_Strom._ II. 8. § 36. 20. § 114. III. 7. § 59. IV. 13. § 91. VI. 6.
      § 52.

Ibid. II. 20. § 114.

I. Præf. 2.

Epiphan. _Hær._ xxxi. 1.

I. xi. 2.

Clem. Alex. _Strom._ III. ii. § 5.

See Massuet, _Diss. Præv._ I. § 80.

Epiphan. xxxi. 1. xxxii. 3. Theodoret. _Hær. Fab._ I. 5.

Ibid.

I. xi. 3.

I. Præf. 2. viii. 5.

_Hær._ xxxiii. 1. Ὁ Πτολεμαῖος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. The passage he
      quotes is I. xii. 1.

_Hær._ xxxv. 1.

_Hær. Fab._ I. 12.

I. xii. 3.

I. xiii. 1. Magistri emendatorem se esse glorians.

_Adv. Valent._ 4.

I. xiii. 5. See p. 202, note 9.

Ibid.

I. xiv. 1.

Ibid.

I. xv. 3.

I. xiii. 3.

I. xiii. 2.

Ibid. 3.

I. xiii. 5. See p. 202, note 9.

Ibid. 6.

Ibid. 5. 7.

I. xxi. 1.

Ibid. 2.

Ibid. 1.

Ibid. 2.

Ibid. 1.

Ibid. 3.

I. xxi. 4.

Ibid. 5.

Irenæus (I. xxviii. 1) expressly says that they thought marriage to
      be pollution and whoredom, and (xxiv. 2) that it and its natural
      consequences were from Satan.

I. vi. 1, 2.

I. v. 2.

I. vi. 4. III. xv. 2.

I. vi. 1.

I. vi. 1.

I. vi. 2, 4.

I. vii. 1.

I. xxv. 5.

I. vi. 2.

_Strom._ II. 20. § 114.

I. xiii. 2.

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