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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 2.28.9

nan But if any lover of strife contradict what I have said, and also what the apostle affirms, that "we know in part, and prophesy in part," and imagine that he has acquired not a partial, but a universal, knowledge of all that exists,--being such an one as Valentinus, or Ptolemaeus, or Basilides, or any other of those who maintain that they have searched out the deep things of God,--let him not (arraying himself in vainglory) boast that he has acquired greater knowledge than others with respect to those things which are invisible, or cannot be placed under our observation; but let him, by making diligent inquiry, and obtaining information from the Father, tell us the reasons (which we know not) of those things which are in this world,--as, for instance, the number of hairs on his own head, and the sparrows which are captured day by day, and such other points with which we are not previously acquainted,--so that we may credit him also with respect to more important points. But if those who are perfect do not yet understand the very things in their hands, and at their feet, and before their eyes, and on the earth, and especially the rule followed with respect to the hairs of their head, how can we believe them regarding things spiritual, and super-celestial, and those which, with a vain confidence, they assert to be above God? So much, then, I have said concerning numbers, and names, and syllables, and questions respecting such things as are above our comprehension, and concerning their improper expositions of the parables: [I add no more on these points,] since thou thyself mayest enlarge upon them.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Job, 27.5 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 27.5. חָלִילָה לִּי אִם־אַצְדִּיק אֶתְכֶם עַד־אֶגְוָע לֹא־אָסִיר תֻּמָּתִי מִמֶּנִּי׃ 27.5. Far be it from me that I should justify you; Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me."
2. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 1.15, 61.2 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.15. וּבְפָרִשְׂכֶם כַּפֵּיכֶם אַעְלִים עֵינַי מִכֶּם גַּם כִּי־תַרְבּוּ תְפִלָּה אֵינֶנִּי שֹׁמֵעַ יְדֵיכֶם דָּמִים מָלֵאוּ׃ 61.2. לִקְרֹא שְׁנַת־רָצוֹן לַיהוָה וְיוֹם נָקָם לֵאלֹהֵינוּ לְנַחֵם כָּל־אֲבֵלִים׃ 1.15. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; Your hands are full of blood." 61.2. To proclaim the year of the LORD’S good pleasure, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all that mourn;"
3. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 1.26-1.28 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.26. For you seeyour calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh,not many mighty, and not many noble; 1.27. but God chose the foolishthings of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. Godchose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame thethings that are strong; 1.28. and God chose the lowly things of theworld, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not,that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
4. New Testament, John, 8.44 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 8.44. You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
5. New Testament, Luke, 1.6, 1.8-1.9, 1.11, 1.19, 21.4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.6. They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordices of the Lord. 1.8. Now it happened, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his division 1.9. according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 1.11. An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 1.19. The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news. 21.4. for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.
6. New Testament, Matthew, 5.23-5.24, 11.25-11.27 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 5.23. If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you 5.24. leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 11.25. At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants. 11.26. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. 11.27. All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
7. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
8. Irenaeus, Demonstration of The Apostolic Teaching, 36 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 5.20.2, 5.20.4-5.20.8 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 5.20.2. At the close of the treatise we have found a most beautiful note which we are constrained to insert in this work. It runs as follows:I adjure you who may copy this book, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by his glorious advent when he comes to judge the living and the dead, to compare what you shall write, and correct it carefully by this manuscript, and also to write this adjuration, and place it in the copy. 5.20.4. In the letter to Florinus, of which we have spoken, Irenaeus mentions again his intimacy with Polycarp, saying:These doctrines, O Florinus, to speak mildly, are not of sound judgment. These doctrines disagree with the Church, and drive into the greatest impiety those who accept them. These doctrines, not even the heretics outside of the Church, have ever dared to publish. These doctrines, the presbyters who were before us, and who were companions of the apostles, did not deliver to you. 5.20.5. For when I was a boy, I saw you in lower Asia with Polycarp, moving in splendor in the royal court, and endeavoring to gain his approbation. 5.20.6. I remember the events of that time more clearly than those of recent years. For what boys learn, growing with their mind, becomes joined with it; so that I am able to describe the very place in which the blessed Polycarp sat as he discoursed, and his goings out and his comings in, and the manner of his life, and his physical appearance, and his discourses to the people, and the accounts which he gave of his intercourse with John and with the others who had seen the Lord. And as he remembered their words, and what he heard from them concerning the Lord, and concerning his miracles and his teaching, having received them from eyewitnesses of the 'Word of life,' Polycarp related all things in harmony with the Scriptures. 5.20.7. These things being told me by the mercy of God, I listened to them attentively, noting them down, not on paper, but in my heart. And continually, through God's grace, I recall them faithfully. And I am able to bear witness before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard any such thing, he would have cried out, and stopped his ears, and as was his custom, would have exclaimed, O good God, unto what times have you spared me that I should endure these things? And he would have fled from the place where, sitting or standing, he had heard such words. 5.20.8. And this can be shown plainly from the letters which he sent, either to the neighboring churches for their confirmation, or to some of the brethren, admonishing and exhorting them. Thus far Irenaeus.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
blasphemy,heresy as	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154, 155
church,humanitys maturation in	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
church,ministry of scripture	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
exegesis,allegorical	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244
exegesis,in gnosticism	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244, 245
exegesis,in irenaeus	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244, 245
exegesis,literal	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244, 245
god,economic work	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
heresy	Osborne (2001), Irenaeus of Lyons, 152
hermeneutical principles	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
holy spirit,agency of	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
humanity,death	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
humanity,immortality	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
humanity,nature	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
humanity,nourishment	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
irenaeus,criticism of gnostic exegesis	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244, 245
irenaeus,heresiological innovations	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182
irenaeus,heresiological use of simplicity	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154, 155
irenaeus,polemical milieu of	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
jewish christianity	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 155
jewish people	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 155, 244
knowledge and wisdom	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
marcion	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
orthodoxy,purity of	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182
paradise,nourishment in	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
participation'	Osborne (2001), Irenaeus of Lyons, 152
satan	Osborne (2001), Irenaeus of Lyons, 152
scripture,as contested authority	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244, 245
scripture	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154
scriptures,as nourishment	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
serpent,agent of god	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
simplicity,jewish notion of	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 155
simplicity,of orthodoxy	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 155
simplicity,virtue of simplicity versus heresy	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154, 155
sophistry,heresy connected to	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154, 155
succession,authentic succession	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182, 244, 245
tatian	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
tree of knowledge,goodness of	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
tree of knowledge,scripture and	Graham (2022), The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24, 128
valentinians	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182
διδασκαλεῖον	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182
εἱρμός	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244
παραχαράσσειν	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182
πιθανολογία	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 245
τάξις	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 244
ἀκακία	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 155
ἀκέραιος	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154
ἀλήθεια	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 182
ἀπάνουργος	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154
ἁπλοῦς	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154
ἁπλότης	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 154, 155
ὑπόθεσις	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 245