Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 5, Chapters 19 to 31 CHAPTER 19 -- A COMPARISON IS INSTITUTED BETWEEN THE DISOBEDIENT AND SINNING EVE AND THE VIRGIN MARY, HER PATRONESS. VARIOUS AND DISCORDANT HERESIES ARE MENTIONED. That the Lord then was manifestly coming to His own...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 5, Chapters 1 to 18
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 5, Chapters 1 to 18 BOOK 5 PREFACE. IN the four preceding books, my very dear friend, which I put forth to thee, all the heretics have been exposed, and their doctrines brought to light, and these men refuted who have devised...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapters 21 to 41
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapters 21 to 41 CHAPTER 21 -- ABRAHAM'S FAITH WAS IDENTICAL WITH OURS; THIS FAITH WAS PREFIGURED BY THE WORDS AND ACTIONS OF THE OLD PATRIARCHS. But that our faith was also prefigured in Abraham, and that he was the patriarch of...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapters 1 to 20
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapters 1 to 20 PREFACE. 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...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapters 15 to 25
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapters 15 to 25 CHAPTER 15 -- REFUTATION OF THE EBIONITES, WHO DISPARAGED THE AUTHORITY OF ST. PAUL, FROM THE WRITINGS OF ST. LUKE, WHICH MUST BE RECEIVED AS A WHOLE. EXPOSURE OF THE HYPOCRISY, DECEIT, AND PRIDE OF THE GNOSTICS....
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapters 1 to 14
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapters 1 to 14 PREFACE. THOU hast indeed enjoined upon me, my very dear friend, that I should bring to light the Valentinian doctrines, concealed, as their votaries imagine; that I should exhibit their diversity, and compose a...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 2, Chapters 18 to 35
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 2, Chapters 18 to 35 CHAPTER 18 -- SOPHIA WAS NEVER REALLY IN IGNORANCE OR PASSION; HER ENTHYMESIS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SEPARATED FROM HERSELF, OR EXHIBITED SPECIAL TENDENCIES OF ITS OWN. How can it be regarded as otherwise than absurd,...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 2, Chapters 1 to 17
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 2, Chapters 1 to 17 PREFACE. IN the first book, which immediately precedes this, exposing "knowledge falsely so called,"(1) I showed thee, my very dear friend, that the whole system devised, in many and opposite ways, by those who are...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapters 16 to 31
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapters 16 to 31 CHAP. XVI.--ABSURD INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MARCOSIANS. Blending in one the production of their own AEons, and the straying and recovery of the sheep [spoken of in the Gospel(1)], these persons endeavour to set forth...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapters 1 to 15
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapters 1 to 15 PREFACE. INASMUCH(1) as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says,(2) "minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith," and by...