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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 5.21.2

nan Now the Lord would not have recapitulated in Himself that ancient and primary enmity against the serpent, fulfilling the promise of the Creator (Demiurgi), and performing His command, if He had come from another Father. But as He is one and the same, who formed us at the beginning, and sent His Son at the end, the Lord did perform His command, being made of a woman, by both destroying our adversary, and perfecting man after the image and likeness of God. And for this reason He did not draw the means of confounding him from any other source than from the words of the law, and made use of the Father's commandment as a help towards the destruction and confusion of the apostate angel. Fasting forty days, like Moses and Elias, He afterwards hungered, first, in order that we may perceive that He was a real and substantial man--for it belongs to a man to suffer hunger when fasting; and secondly, that His opponent might have an opportunity of attacking Him. For as at the beginning it was by means of food that [the enemy] persuaded man, although not suffering hunger, to transgress God's commandments, so in the end he did not succeed in persuading Him that was an hungered to take that food which proceeded from God. For, when tempting Him, he said, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." But the Lord repulsed him by the commandment of the law, saying, "It is written, Man doth not live by bread alone." As to those words '[of His enemy,] "If thou be the Son of God," [the Lord] made no remark; but by thus acknowledging His human nature He baffled His adversary, and exhausted the force of his first attack by means of His Father's word. The corruption of man, therefore, which occurred in paradise by both [of our first parents] eating, was done away with by [the Lord's] want of food in this world. But he, being thus vanquished by the law, endeavoured again to make an assault by himself quoting a commandment of the law. For, bringing Him to the highest pinnacle of the temple, he said to Him, "If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down. For it is written, That God shall give His angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perchance thou dash thy foot against a stone;" thus concealing a falsehood under the guise of Scripture, as is done by all the heretics. For that was indeed written, [namely], "That He hath given His angels charge concerning Him;" but "east thyself down from hence" no Scripture said in reference to Him: this kind of persuasion the devil produced from himself. The Lord therefore confuted him out of the law, when He said, "It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God;" pointing out by the word contained in the law that which is the duty of man, that he should not tempt God; and in regard to Himself, since He appeared in human form, [declaring] that He would not tempt the LORD his God. The pride of reason, therefore, which was in the serpent, was put to nought by the humility found in the man [Christ], and now twice was the devil conquered from Scripture, when he was detected as advising things contrary to God's commandment, and was shown to be the enemy of God by [the expression of] his thoughts. He then, having been thus signally defeated, and then, as it were, concentrating his forces, drawing up in order all his available power for falsehood, in the third place "showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them," saying, as Luke relates, "All these will I give thee,--for they are delivered to me; and to whom I will, I give them,--if thou wilt fall down and worship me." The Lord then, exposing him in his true character, says, "Depart, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." He both revealed him by this name, and showed [at the same time] who He Himself was. For the Hebrew word "Satan" signifies an apostate. And thus, vanquishing him for the third time, He spurned him from Him finally as being conquered out of the law; and there was done away with that infringement of God's commandment which had occurred in Adam, by means of the precept of the law, which the Son of man observed, who did not transgress the commandment of God.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 14.8 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 14.8. וְאֶת־הַחֲזִיר כִּי־מַפְרִיס פַּרְסָה הוּא וְלֹא גֵרָה טָמֵא הוּא לָכֶם מִבְּשָׂרָם לֹא תֹאכֵלוּ וּבְנִבְלָתָם לֹא תִגָּעוּ׃ 14.8. and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch."
2. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 33.20 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 33.20. And He said: ‘Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.’"
3. Hebrew Bible, Leviticus, 11.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 11.7. וְאֶת־הַחֲזִיר כִּי־מַפְרִיס פַּרְסָה הוּא וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה וְהוּא גֵּרָה לֹא־יִגָּר טָמֵא הוּא לָכֶם׃ 11.7. And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you."
4. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 91.11-91.12 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 91.11. כִּי מַלְאָכָיו יְצַוֶּה־לָּךְ לִשְׁמָרְךָ בְּכָל־דְּרָכֶיךָ׃ 91.12. עַל־כַּפַּיִם יִשָּׂאוּנְךָ פֶּן־תִּגֹּף בָּאֶבֶן רַגְלֶךָ׃ 91.11. For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways." 91.12. They shall bear thee upon their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
5. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 1.3 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.3. יָדַע שׁוֹר קֹנֵהוּ וַחֲמוֹר אֵבוּס בְּעָלָיו יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא יָדַע עַמִּי לֹא הִתְבּוֹנָן׃ 1.3. כִּי תִהְיוּ כְּאֵלָה נֹבֶלֶת עָלֶהָ וּכְגַנָּה אֲשֶׁר־מַיִם אֵין לָהּ׃ 1.3. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master’s crib; But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider."
6. Plato, Gorgias, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 465c. as self-adornment is to gymnastic, so is sophistry to legislation; and as cookery is to medicine, so is rhetoric to justice. But although, as I say, there is this natural distinction between them, they are so nearly related that sophists and orators are jumbled up as having the same field and dealing with the same subjects, and neither can they tell what to make of each other, nor the world at large what to make of them. For indeed, if the soul were not in command of the body, but the latter had charge of itself, and so cookery and medicine were not surveyed
7. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 2.15, 15.50 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.15. But he who is spiritual discerns allthings, and he himself is judged by no one. 15.50. Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can'tinherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inheritincorruption.
8. New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 2.17, 4.5, 11.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
9. New Testament, Romans, 3.11-3.12, 3.30, 5.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 3.11. There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God. 3.12. They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one. 3.30. since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. 5.19. For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
10. 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.
11. New Testament, Matthew, 4.4, 4.6, 7.5, 11.25-11.27 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 4.4. But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.' 4.6. and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don't dash your foot against a stone.' 7.5. You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. 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.
12. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
13. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
14. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 5.13.1-5.13.7 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 5.13.1. At this time Rhodo, a native of Asia, who had been instructed, as he himself states, by Tatian, with whom we have already become acquainted, having written several books, published among the rest one against the heresy of Marcion. He says that this heresy was divided in his time into various opinions; and while describing those who occasioned the division, he refutes accurately the falsehoods devised by each of them. 5.13.2. But hear what he writes:Therefore also they disagree among themselves, maintaining an inconsistent opinion. For Apelles, one of the herd, priding himself on his manner of life and his age, acknowledges one principle, but says that the prophecies are from an opposing spirit, being led to this view by the responses of a maiden by name Philumene, who was possessed by a demon. 5.13.3. But others, among whom are Potitus and Basilicus, hold to two principles, as does the mariner Marcion himself. 5.13.4. These following the wolf of Pontus, and, like him, unable to fathom the division of things, became reckless, and without giving any proof asserted two principles. Others, again, drifting into a worse error, consider that there are not only two, but three natures. of these, Syneros is the leader and chief, as those who defend his teaching say. 5.13.5. The same author writes that he engaged in conversation with Apelles. He speaks as follows:For the old man Apelles, when conversing with us, was refuted in many things which he spoke falsely; whence also he said that it was not at all necessary to examine one's doctrine, but that each one should continue to hold what he believed. For he asserted that those who trusted in the Crucified would be saved, if only they were found doing good works. But as we have said before, his opinion concerning God was the most obscure of all. For he spoke of one principle, as also our doctrine does. 5.13.6. Then, after stating fully his own opinion, he adds:When I said to him, Tell me how you know this or how can you assert that there is one principle, he replied that the prophecies refuted themselves, because they have said nothing true; for they are inconsistent, and false, and self-contradictory. But how there is one principle he said that he did not know, but that he was thus persuaded. 5.13.7. As I then adjured him to speak the truth, he swore that he did so when he said that he did not know how there is one unbegotten God, but that he believed it. Thereupon I laughed and reproved him because, though calling himself a teacher, he knew not how to confirm what he taught.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adam, and christ	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 64
adam and eve	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 217
anthropology	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 217
blasphemy, heresy as	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 189
christ	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 64
christology	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 111
church, humanitys maturation in	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
church, ministry of scripture	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
clement of alexandria, positive use of philosophy	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282, 283
correction	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 102
death, of christ	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 64
dialectic, positive assessment and use of	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282, 283
eve and mary	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
exegesis, in clement of alexandria	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282, 283
exegesis, in gnosticism	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
exegesis, in irenaeus	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
faith	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 217
fall, the	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 217
flesh	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
gnostic christians	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
gnosticism, as deceptive	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 180, 181
gnosticism, cento	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
gnosticism, orthodox appropriation of gnosis	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 283
god, uniqueness of	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
god, unity of	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
heresy, alterity/otherness/exteriority of	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181
heresy	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 152
humanity, nourishment	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
humanity of christ	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 111
immortality	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 102
incarnation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
irenaeus, criticism of gnostic exegesis	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
irenaeus, heresiological innovations	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 180, 181, 189
irenaeus	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 64; Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282, 283; Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
jesus, adam and	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
jesus, ministry of scripture	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
jesus, recapitulative work	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
justification	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 102
justin martyr	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
knowledge and wisdom	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
mark the magician	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181
markion	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
mary	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
meliton of sardis	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
mortality	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
new adam	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
new covenant	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
new testament	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 189
paganism, heresy assimilated to	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181
paradise, nourishment in	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
participation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 152, 217
paul and john	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 217
person of christ	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 111
philosophy, positive invocation and use of	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282, 283
positive relationship to christianity	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 283
recapitulation	Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000) 64; Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129; Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 102, 111
reconciliation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
redemption	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 111
rhodon	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
roman church	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
salvation	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101, 102
satan, and heresy	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181, 234
satan	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129; Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 152, 217
scriptures, as nourishment	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
second adam	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
serpent	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
simon of samaria	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181, 234
sin	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 101
sophistry, heresy connected to	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282, 283
succession, authentic succession	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181
theophilos of antioch	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
tree of knowledge, goodness of	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
tree of knowledge, scripture and	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
valentinians	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 180; Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 208
way (jesus as), to correlate church and paradise	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129
word, the'	Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
word of god	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 129; Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 111
βιάζεσθαι	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
διάβολος	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282
μεθαρμόζειν	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
παραχαράσσειν	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181
πιθανολογία	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 283
σοφίζειν	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282
χαρακτήρ	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234
ἀλήθεια	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 181
ἀμφιβολία	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 282
ἐκλέγειν	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 234