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Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Books I–V
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Against Heresies: Book V — Translator and historical edition notes (part 2)
[He thus outlines the creed, and epitomizes “the faith once delivered to the saints,” as all that is requisite to salvation.]
Prov. i. 20, 21 .
That is, the private Christian as contrasted with the sophist of the schools.
2 Tim. iii. 7 .
Gen. ii. 16 .
Rom. xii. 3 .
Eph. i. 10 .
τηρήσει and τερέσει have probably been confounded.
Gen. iii. 15 .
Gal. iii. 19 .
Gal. iv. 4 .
Matt. iv. 3 .
Deut. viii. 3 .
The Latin of this obscure sentence is: Quæ ergo fuit in Paradiso repletio hominis per duplicem gustationem, dissoluta est per eam, quæ fuit in hoc mundo, indigentiam. Harvey thinks that repletio is an error of the translation reading ἀναπλήρωσις for ἀναπήρωσις . This conjecture is adopted above.
Ps. lxxxix. 11 .
Deut. vi. 16 .
This sentence is one of great obscurity.
Luke iv. 6, 7 .
Matt. iv. 10 .
Matt. xii. 29 and Mark iii. 27 .
Rom. iii. 30 .
Deut. vi. 4, 5, 13 .
Matt. iv. 7 .
Deut. vi. 16 .
Rom. xii. 16 .
Matt. x. 29 .
John viii. 44 .
Luke iv. 6 .
Gen. ii. 16, 17 .
Gen. iii. 1 .
Gen. iii. 2, 3 .
Gen. iii. 4 .
2 Pet. iii. 8 .
John viii. 44 .
Matt. iv. 9 ; Luke iv. 6 .
Prov. xxi. 1 .
Prov. viii. 15 .
Rom. xiii. 1 .
Rom. xiii. 4 .
Rom. xiii. 6 .
Matt. xvii. 27 .
[Well says Benjamin Franklin: “He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.” See Bancroft, Hist. U.S. , vol. ix. p. 492.]
Eph. ii. 2 .
Luke x. 19 .
Matt. xxiv. 15, 21 .
Dan. vii. 8 , etc.
Dan. vii. 23 , etc.
2 Thess. ii. 8 .
John v. 43 .
Luke xviii. 2 , etc.
This may refer to Antiochus Epiphanes, Antichrist’s prototype, who offered swine upon the altar in the temple at Jerusalem. The LXX. version has, ἐδόθη ἐπὶ τὴν θυσίαν ἁμαρτία , i.e., sin has been given against (or, upon ) the sacrifice.
Dan. viii. 12 .
Dan. viii. 23 , etc.
Dan. ix. 27 .
Matt. xxiv. 15 .
The mss. have “præmisit,” but Harvey suggests “promisit,” which we have adopted.
Rev. xvii. 12 , etc.
Matt. xii. 25 .
Dan. ii. 33, 34 .
Dan. ii. 41, 42 .
Dan. ii. 42, 43 .
Dan. ii. 44, 45 .
The Greek text is here preserved by Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. , iv. 18; but we are not told from what work of Justin Martyr it is extracted. The work is now lost. An ancient catena continues the Greek for several lines further.
Matt. x. 25 .
Luke xvii. 34 .
Matt. xiii. 30 .
Matt. xxv. 33 , etc.
Luke x. 12 .
Matt. v. 45 .
John iii. 18–21 .
2 Thess. ii. 10–12 .
Rev. xix. 20 .
Rev. xiii. 2 , etc.
Rev. xiii. 11 , etc.
Rev. xiii. 14 , etc.
Gen. ii. 2 .
2 Pet. iii. 8 .
This is quoted from the Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans, ch. iv. It is found in the two Greek recensions of his works, and also in the Syriac. See pp. 75 and 103 of this volume. The Latin translation is here followed: the Greek of Ignatius would give “the wheat of God,” and omits “of God” towards the end, as quoted by Eusebius.
Isa. xl. 15 .
Matt. xxiv. 21 .
ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς σπουδαίοις καὶ ἀρχαίοις ἀντιγράφοις This passage is interesting, as showing how very soon the autographs of the New Testament must have perished, and various readings crept into the mss. of the canonical books.
That is, Ξ into ΕΙ , according to Harvey, who considers the whole of this clause as an evident interpolation. It does not occur in the Greek here preserved by Eusebius ( Hist. Eccl. , v. 8).
Rev. xxii. 19 .
1 Thess. v. 3 .
Jer. viii. 16 .
Rev. vii. 5–7 . [The Danites (though not all) corrupted the Hebrew church and the Levitical priesthood, by image-worship, ( Judg. xviii. ), and forfeited the blessings of the old covenant.]
[A very pregnant passage, as has often been noted. But let us imitate the pious reticence with which this section concludes.]
Massuet here quotes Cicero and Ovid in proof of the sun being termed Titan . The Titans waged war against the gods, to avenge themselves upon Saturn.
Rev. xvii. 8 .
Matt. viii. 11 .
See the note, book iii. xx. 4.
Matt. xi. 40 .
Eph. iv. 9 .
Ps. lxxxvi. 23 .
John xx. 17 .
Eph. iv. 9 .
John xx. 20, 27 .
Ps. xxiii. 4 .
Luke vi. 40 .
The five following chapters were omitted in the earlier editions, but added by Feuardentius. Most mss. , too, did not contain them. It is probable that the scribes of the middle ages rejected them on account of their inculcating millenarian notions, which had been long extinct in the Church. Quotations from these five chapters have been collected by Harvey from Syriac and Armenian mss. lately come to light.
Or, “gradually to comprehend God.”
Rom. viii. 19 , etc.
Gen. xiii. 13, 14 .
Gen. xiii. 17 .
Acts vii. 5 ; Heb. xi. 13 .
Gen. xxiii. 11 .
Gen. xv. 13 .
Luke iii. 8 .
Gal. iv. 28 .
Gal. iii. 16 .
Gal. iii. 6 , etc.
Matt. v. 5 .
Matt. xxvi. 27 .
Ps. civ. 30 .
Luke xiv. 12, 13 .
Matt. xix. 29 ; Luke xviii. 29, 30 .
Gen. xxvii. 27 , etc.
Matt. xiii. 38 .
Gen. xxvii. 28, 29 .
Gen. xxxi. 41 .
Gen. xxxiii. 3 .
From this to the end of the section there is an Armenian version extant, to be found in the Spicil. Solesm. i. p. 1, edited by M. Pitra, Paris 1852, and which was taken by him from an Armenian ms. in the Mechitarist Library at Venice, described as being of the twelfth century.
This word “true” is not found in the Armenian.
Or, following Arm. vers., “But if any one shall lay hold of an holy cluster.”
The Arm. vers. is here followed; the old Latin reads, “Et reliqua autem poma.”
[See pp. 151–154, this volume.]
Isa. xl. 6 , etc.
Isa. xxvi. 19 .
Ezek. xxxvii. 12 , etc.
Ezek. xxviii. 25, 26 .
Matt. iii. 9 .
Jer. xxiii. 6, 7 .
Isa. xxx. 25, 26 .
Isa. lviii. 14 .
Luke xii. 37, 38 .
Rev. xx. 6 .
Isa. vi. 11 .
Dan. vii. 27 .
Dan. xii. 13 .
Jer. xxxi. 10 , etc.
See. iv. 8, 3.
Matt. xii. 5 .
Isa. xxxi. 9 , Isa. xxxii. 1 .
Isa. liv. 11–14 .
Isa. lxv. 18 .
Isa. vi. 11 .
Isa. xiii. 9 .
Isa. xxvi. 10 .
Isa. vi. 12 .
Isa. lxv. 21 .
The long quotation following is not found in Jeremiah, but in the apocryphal book of Baruch iv. 36 , etc., and the whole of Baruch v.
Isa. xlix. 16 .
Gal. iv. 26 .
Rev. xxi. 2 .
Rev. xx. 11 .
Rev. xx. 12–14 .
Matt. xxv. 41 .
Rev. xx. 15 .
Rev. xxi. 1–4 .
Isa. lxv. 17, 18 .
1 Cor. vii. 31 .
Matt. xxvi. 35 .
Ex. xxv. 40 .
Rev. xxi. 5, 6 .
1 Cor. vii. 31 .
Lib. iv. 5, 6.
Isa. lxvi. 22 .
Thus in a Greek fragment; in the Old Latin, Deus .
John xiv. 2 .
Matt. xxii. 10 .
1 Cor. xv. 25, 26 .
1 Cor. xv. 27, 28 .
Luke xiv. 14 .
Rom. viii. 21 .
1 Cor. ii. 9 ; Isa. lxiv. 4 .
1 Pet. i. 12 .
Grabe and others suppose that some part of the work has been lost, so that the above was not its original conclusion.