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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 4.39.2

nan How, then, shall he be a God, who has not as yet been made a man? Or how can he be perfect who was but lately created? How, again, can he be immortal, who in his mortal nature did not obey his Maker? For it must be that thou, at the outset, shouldest hold the rank of a man, and then afterwards partake of the glory of God. For thou dost not make God, but God thee. If, then, thou art God's workmanship, await the hand of thy Maker which creates everything in due time; in due time as far as thou art concerned, whose creation is being carried out. Offer to Him thy heart in a soft and tractable state, and preserve the form in which the Creator has fashioned thee, having moisture in thyself, lest, by becoming hardened, thou lose the impressions of His fingers. But by preserving the framework thou shalt ascend to that which is perfect, for the moist clay which is in thee is hidden [there] by the workmanship of God. His hand fashioned thy substance; He will cover thee over [too] within and without with pure gold and silver, and He will adorn thee to such a degree, that even "the King Himself shall have pleasure in thy beauty." But if thou, being obstinately hardened, dost reject the operation of His skill, and show thyself ungrateful towards Him, because thou weft created a [mere] man, by becoming thus ungrateful to God, thou hast at once lost both His workmanship and life. For creation is an attribute of the goodness of God but to be created is that of human nature. If then, thou shalt deliver up to Him what is thine that is, faith towards Him and subjection, thou shalt receive His handiwork, and shall be a perfect work of God.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 8 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
2. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 44.12 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 44.12. תִּתְּנֵנוּ כְּצֹאן מַאֲכָל וּבַגּוֹיִם זֵרִיתָנוּ׃ 44.12. Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations."
3. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 7.9-7.16, 63.9 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 7.9. וְרֹאשׁ אֶפְרַיִם שֹׁמְרוֹן וְרֹאשׁ שֹׁמְרוֹן בֶּן־רְמַלְיָהוּ אִם לֹא תַאֲמִינוּ כִּי לֹא תֵאָמֵנוּ׃ 7.11. שְׁאַל־לְךָ אוֹת מֵעִם יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ הַעְמֵק שְׁאָלָה אוֹ הַגְבֵּהַּ לְמָעְלָה׃ 7.12. וַיֹּאמֶר אָחָז לֹא־אֶשְׁאַל וְלֹא־אֲנַסֶּה אֶת־יְהוָה׃ 7.13. וַיֹּאמֶר שִׁמְעוּ־נָא בֵּית דָּוִד הַמְעַט מִכֶּם הַלְאוֹת אֲנָשִׁים כִּי תַלְאוּ גַּם אֶת־אֱלֹהָי׃ 7.14. לָכֵן יִתֵּן אֲדֹנָי הוּא לָכֶם אוֹת הִנֵּה הָעַלְמָה הָרָה וְיֹלֶדֶת בֵּן וְקָרָאת שְׁמוֹ עִמָּנוּ אֵל׃ 7.15. חֶמְאָה וּדְבַשׁ יֹאכֵל לְדַעְתּוֹ מָאוֹס בָּרָע וּבָחוֹר בַּטּוֹב׃ 7.16. כִּי בְּטֶרֶם יֵדַע הַנַּעַר מָאֹס בָּרָע וּבָחֹר בַּטּוֹב תֵּעָזֵב הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה קָץ מִפְּנֵי שְׁנֵי מְלָכֶיהָ׃ 63.9. בְּכָל־צָרָתָם לא [לוֹ] צָר וּמַלְאַךְ פָּנָיו הוֹשִׁיעָם בְּאַהֲבָתוֹ וּבְחֶמְלָתוֹ הוּא גְאָלָם וַיְנַטְּלֵם וַיְנַשְּׂאֵם כָּל־יְמֵי עוֹלָם׃ 7.9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.’" 7.10. And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying:" 7.11. ’Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.’" 7.12. But Ahaz said: ‘I will not ask, neither will I try the LORD.’" 7.13. And he said: ‘Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?" 7.14. Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." 7.15. Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good." 7.16. Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken." 63.9. In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. ."
4. New Testament, Luke, 12.58 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 12.58. For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
5. New Testament, Matthew, 5.25-5.26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 5.25. Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. 5.26. Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
6. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.6-1.7, 1.9.4, 1.12.2, 1.20.3, 1.28.1, 2.1.1, 2.9.2, 2.13.3, 2.19.6, 2.25.4, 2.26.3, 2.27.1, 2.28.1-2.28.3, 2.29.1, 2.29.3, 2.31.3, 2.33.4, 2.34.1, 2.34.3, 3.20.1-3.20.2, 3.20.4, 3.21.1, 3.21.4, 3.23.4-3.23.5, 4.4.2, 4.6.7, 4.9.2, 4.11.2, 4.12.2, 4.13.2, 4.14.1, 4.14.3, 4.19.1, 4.33.4, 4.37.1, 4.37.7, 4.38.1-4.38.4, 4.39.3, 5.1.1, 5.1.3, 5.2.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.3, 5.6.1, 5.7.2, 5.8.1, 5.9.1, 5.9.4, 5.12.2, 5.15.2, 5.20.2, 5.36.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 1.6. But Anaximenes, who himself was also a native of Miletus, and son of Eurystratus, affirmed that the originating principle is infinite air, out of which are generated things existing, those which have existed, and those that will be, as well as gods and divine (entities), and that the rest arise from the offspring of this. But that there is such a species of air, when it is most even, which is imperceptible to vision, but capable of being manifested by cold and heat, and moisture and motion, and that it is continually in motion; for that whatsoever things undergo alteration, do not change if there is not motion. For that it presents a different appearance according as it is condensed and attenuated, for when it is dissolved into what is more attenuated that fire is produced, and that when it is moderately condensed again into air that a cloud is formed from the air by virtue of the contraction; but when condensed still more, water, (and) that when the condensation is carried still further, earth is formed; and when condensed to the very highest degree, stones. Wherefore, that the domit principles of generation are contraries - namely, heat and cold. And that the expanded earth is wafted along upon the air, and in like manner both sun and moon and the rest of the stars; for all things being of the nature of fire, are wafted about through the expanse of space, upon the air. And that the stars are produced from earth by reason of the mist which arises from this earth; and when this is attenuated, that fire is produced, and that the stars consist of the fire which is being borne aloft. But also that there are terrestrial natures in the region of the stars carried on along with them. And he says that the stars do not move under the earth, as some have supposed, but around the earth, just as a cap is turned round our head; and that the sun is hid, not by being under the earth, but because covered by the higher portions of the earth, and on account of the greater distance that he is from us. But that the stars do not emit heat on account of the length of distance; and that the winds are produced when the condensed air, becoming rarified, is borne on; and that when collected and thickened still further, clouds are generated, and thus a change made into water. And that hail is produced when the water borne down from the clouds becomes congealed; and that snow is generated when these very clouds, being more moist, acquire congelation; and that lightning is caused when the clouds are parted by force of the winds; for when these are sundered there is produced a brilliant and fiery flash. And that a rainbow is produced by reason of the rays of the sun failing on the collected air. And that an earthquake takes place when the earth is altered into a larger (bulk) by heat and cold. These indeed, then, were the opinions of Anaximenes. This (philosopher) flourished about the first year of the LVIII . Olympiad. 1.7. After this (thinker) comes Anaxagoras, son of Hegesibulus, a native of Clazomenae. This person affirmed the originating principle of the universe to be mind and matter; mind being the efficient cause, whereas matter that which was being formed. For all things coming into existence simultaneously, mind supervening introduced order. And material principles, he says, are infinite; even the smaller of these are infinite. And that all things partake of motion by being moved by mind, and that similar bodies coalesce. And that celestial bodies were arranged by orbicular motion. That, therefore, what was thick and moist, and dark and cold, and all things heavy, came together into the centre, from the solidification of which earth derived support; but that the things opposite to these - namely, heat and brilliancy, and dryness and lightness - hurried impetuously into the farther portion of the atmosphere. And that the earth is in figure plane; and that it continues suspended aloft, by reason of its magnitude, and by reason of there being no vacuum, and by reason of the air, which was most powerful, bearing along the wafted earth. But that among moist substances on earth, was the sea, and the waters in it; and when these evaporated (from the sun), or had settled under, that the ocean was formed in this manner, as well as from the rivers that from time to time flow into it. And that the rivers also derive support from the rains and from the actual waters in the earth; for that this is hollow, and contains water in its caverns. And that the Nile is inundated in summer, by reason of the waters carried down into it from the snows in northern (latitudes). And that the sun and moon and all the stars are fiery stones, that were rolled round by the rotation of the atmosphere. And that beneath the stars are sun and moon, and certain invisible bodies that are carried along with us; and that we have no perception of the heat of the stars, both on account of their being so far away, and on account of their distance from the earth; and further, they are not to the same degree hot as the sun, on account of their occupying a colder situation. And that the moon, being lower than the sun, is nearer us. And that the sun surpasses the Peloponnesus in size. And that the moon has not light of its own, but from the sun. But that the revolution of the stars takes place under the earth. And that the moon is eclipsed when the earth is interposed, and occasionally also those (stars) that are underneath the moon. And that the sun (is eclipsed) when, at the beginning of the month, the moon is interposed. And that the solstices are caused by both sun and moon being repulsed by the air. And that the moon is often turned, by its not being able to make head against the cold. This person was the first to frame definitions regarding eclipses and illuminations. And he affirmed that the moon is earthy, and has in it plains and ravines. And that the milky way is a reflection of the light of the stars which do not derive their radiance from the sun; and that the stars, coursing (the firmament) as shooting sparks, arise out of the motion of the pole. And that winds are caused when the atmosphere is rarified by the sun, and by those burning orbs that advance under the pole, and are borne from (it). And that thunder and lightning are caused by heat falling on the clouds. And that earthquakes are produced by the air above falling on that under the earth; for when this is moved, that the earth also, being wafted by it, is shaken. And that animals originally came into existence in moisture, and after this one from another; and that males are procreated when the seed secreted from the right parts adhered to the right parts of the womb, and that females are born when the contrary took place. This philosopher flourished in the first year of the LXXXVIII . Olympiad, at which time they say that Plato also was born. They maintain that Anaxagoras was likewise prescient.
7. Irenaeus, Demonstration of The Apostolic Teaching, 6, 8, 12 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adam	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 244
anthropology	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220, 230
apostasy	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 117
beauty	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 230
berthouzoz, r.	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116
christ, as son	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 244
christ	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116
claudius, roman emperor, expulsion of jews from rome by	Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 553
consummation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 252
corporeality	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
covenant	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
devil	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 244
divine intellect	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 256
ebionites	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
embodiment, irenaeus physics of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
enjoyment	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116
epicureans, psychological holism of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
epistemology in late antique world, irenaeus and	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
ethics	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 244
evil	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 244
faith, irenaeus on action arising from	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
flesh	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220, 230, 244
flesh and glory	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 230
gill, c.	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
glory	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 244
glory of god	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 230, 244, 252
gnostic man	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 252
gnostic pessimism	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 256
good, irenaeus of lyons on choosing	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
hands of god	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220
humanism	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 252
immediacy of god	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 252
irenaeus	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116; Iricinschi et al., Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels (2013) 161
irenaeus of lyons, action and change, psychology of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82, 83
irenaeus of lyons, epideixis	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
irenaeus of lyons, epistemology of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
irenaeus of lyons, faith, on action arising from	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
irenaeus of lyons, good, on choosing	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
irenaeus of lyons, maturity, on	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
irenaeus of lyons, ordering the self and	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81, 82
irenaeus of lyons, psychological holism of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
irenaeus of lyons, soul, composition of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
irenaeus of lyons	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81, 82, 83
katalepsis	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 83
knowledge of god	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
law, old testament	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
likeness of god	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
man, as created	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116, 117
man, as self-creating	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116
man, growth of	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116, 117
martyrdom	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 244
martyrs	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 244
mary	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
meletē	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 83
minns, d.	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 117
moral transformation	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
optimism	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 256
ordering of knowledge, epistemology in late antique world, irenaeus on ordering the self	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81, 82
participation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220, 230, 244, 256
passion	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 116
pedagogy, divine	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
perfection	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
plato and platonism, soul, composition of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
platonism, effects on the church fathers	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 244
psychological holism	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
recapitulation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
reciprocity of salvation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
reconciliation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
resurrection, connection to morality	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 84
resurrection of the flesh	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 230
salvation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108, 230
salvation of the flesh	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 230
satan	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 244
son of god	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
soul, irenaeus on composition of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 81
spirit	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220
stoics and stoicism, psychological holism of	Ayres Champion and Crawford, The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions (2023) 82
the beginning'	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 244
theocentric optimism	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 256
truth	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 108
unity of man	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220
valentinians	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 220