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Irenaeus: Against Heresies. From: Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts. BOOK IV. PREFACE. 1. By transmitting to thee, my very dear friend, this fourth book of the work which is [entitled] The Detection and Refuation of False Knowledge, I shall, as I have promised, add weight, by means of the words of the Lord, to what I have ...
Now man is a mixed organization of soul and flesh, who was formed after the likeness of God, and moulded by His hands, that is, by the Son and Holy Spirit, to whom also He said, Let Us make man. Genesis 1:26 This, then, is the aim of him who envies our life, to render men disbelievers in their own salvation, and blasphemous against God the ...
Nov 28, 2006 · Audiobook - Nonfiction, religion. In this volume of Against Heresies, Irenaeus uses Jesus' statements quoted in the Gospel to argue against the Gnostics' interpretation of Jesus. He emphasizes the continuity of the Old Testament with the New, and the ways the Son made appearances or was foreshadowed in the Old Testament.
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2. Since, then, the law originated with Moses, it terminated with John as a necessary consequence. Christ had come to fulfil it: wherefore the law and the prophets were with them until John. Luke 16:16 And therefore Jerusalem, taking its commencement from David, and fulfilling its own times, must have an end of legislation when the new covenant ...
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Preface Chapter 1 Absurd ideas of the disciples of Valentinus as to the origin, name, order, and conjugal productions of their fancied aeons, with the passages of Scripture which they adapt to their opinions. Chapter 2 The Propator was known to Monogenes alone. Ambition, disturbance, and danger into which Sophia fell; her shapeless offspring: she i...
Preface Chapter 1 There is but one God: the impossibility of its being otherwise Chapter 2 The world was not formed by angels, or by any other being, contrary to the will of the Most High God, but was made by the Father through the Word Chapter 3 The Bythus and Pleroma of the Valentinians, as well as the God of Marcion, shown to be absurd; the worl...
Preface Chapter 1 The apostles did not commence to preach the Gospel, or to place anything on record, until they were endowed with the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. They preached one God alone, maker of heaven and earth. Chapter 2 The heretics follow neither Scripture nor Tradition Chapter 3 A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, i...
Preface Chapter 1 The Lord acknowledged but one God and Father. Chapter 2 Proofs from the plain testimony of Moses, and of the other prophets, whose words are the words of Christ, that there is but one God, the Founder of the world, Whom our Lord preached, and whom he called His Father. Chapter 3 Answer to the cavils of the Gnostics. We are not to ...
Preface Chapter 1 Christ alone is able to teach Divine things, and to redeem us: He, the same, took flesh of the Virgin Mary, not merely in appearance, but actually, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, in order to renovate us. strictures on the conceits of Valentinus and Ebion. Chapter 2 When Christ visited us in his grace, he did not come to what...
Jul 25, 2014 · New Advent. Language. English. This is the complete Adversus haereses ( Against Heresies ) Perhaps the most popular work by Saint Irenaeus. It is the name of a two-volume work against Gnosticism (and other Christian heresies), written about AD 180 by the Church Father Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon in Gaul (now France).
And this is He of whom the Scripture says, “And God formed man, taking clay of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life.” 4063 It was not angels, therefore, who made us, nor who formed us, neither had angels power to make an image of God, nor any one else, except the Word of the Lord, nor any Power remotely distant from the ...
