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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 3.11.3


nanBut, according to these men, neither was the Word made flesh, nor Christ, nor the Saviour (Soter), who was produced from [the joint contributions of] all [the Aeons]. For they will have it, that the Word and Christ never came into this world; that the Saviour, too, never became incarnate, nor suffered, but that He descended like a dove upon the dispensational Jesus; and that, as soon as He had declared the unknown Father, He did again ascend into the Pleroma. Some, however, make the assertion, that this dispensational Jesus did become incarnate, and suffered, whom they represent as having passed through Mary just as water through a tube; but others allege him to be the Son of the Demiurge, upon whom the dispensational Jesus descended; while others, again, say that Jesus was born from Joseph and Mary, and that the Christ from above descended upon him, being without flesh, and impassible. But according to the opinion of no one of the heretics was the Word of God made flesh. For if any one carefully examines the systems of them all, he will find that the Word of God is brought in by all of them as not having become incarnate (sine carne) and impassible, as is also the Christ from above. Others consider Him to have been manifested as a transfigured man; but they maintain Him to have been neither born nor to have become incarnate; whilst others [hold] that He did not assume a human form at all, but that, as a dove, He did descend upon that Jesus who was born from Mary. Therefore the Lord's disciple, pointing them all out as false witnesses, says, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

4 results
1. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 2.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

2.15. But he who is spiritual discerns allthings, and he himself is judged by no one.
2. 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.
3. New Testament, Matthew, 11.25-11.27, 13.38 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

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. 13.38. the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the darnel are the sons of the evil one.
4. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
blasphemy, heresy as Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 178
gnosticism, succession and schools within Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177
heresy, alterity/otherness/exteriority of Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 178
heresy, division/multiplicity of Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177
heresy Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 152
irenaeus, heresiological innovations Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177, 178
law, the, and gospel Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177, 178
myth, associated with heresy Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 178
participation' Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 152
quartodeciman controversy Lieu, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (2015) 48
salvation Lieu, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (2015) 48
satan Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 152
simon of samaria Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177
succession, heretical succession Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177
tatian Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177
valentinians Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 177, 178
valentinus Lieu, Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century (2015) 48