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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 5.23.2


nanThus, then, in the day that they did eat, in the same did they die, and became death's debtors, since it was one day of the creation. For it is said, "There was made in the evening, and there was made in the morning, one day." Now in this same day that they did eat, in that also did they die. But according to the cycle and progress of the days, after which one is termed first, another second, and another third, if anybody seeks diligently to learn upon what day out of the seven it was that Adam died, he will find it by examining the dispensation of the Lord. For by summing up in Himself the whole human race from the beginning to the end, He has also summed up its death. From this it is clear that the Lord suffered death, in obedience to His Father, upon that day on which Adam died while he disobeyed God. Now he died on the same day in which he did eat. For God said, "In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death." The Lord, therefore, recapitulating in Himself this day, underwent His sufferings upon the day preceding the Sabbath, that is, the sixth day of the creation, on which day man was created; thus granting him a second creation by means of His passion, which is that [creation] out of death. And there are some, again, who relegate the death of Adam to the thousandth year; for since "a day of the Lord is as a thousand years," he did not overstep the thousand years, but died within them, thus bearing out the sentence of his sin. Whether, therefore, with respect to disobedience, which is death; whether [we consider] that, on account of that, they were delivered over to death, and made debtors to it; whether with respect to [the fact that on] one and the same day on which they ate they also died (for it is one day of the creation); whether [we regard this point], that, with respect to this cycle of days, they died on the day in which they did also eat, that is, the day] of the preparation, which is termed "the pure supper," that is, the sixth day of the feast, which the Lord also exhibited when He suffered on that day; or whether [we reflect] that he (Adam) did not overstep the thousand years, but died within their limit,--it follows that, in regard to all these significations, God is indeed true. For they died who tasted of the tree; and the serpent is proved a liar and a murderer, as the Lord said of him: "For he is a murderer from the beginning, and the truth is not in him.


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

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.26 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.26. וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל־הָאָרֶץ וּבְכָל־הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאָרֶץ׃ 1.26. And God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.’"
2. New Testament, 2 Peter, 3.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3.8. But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
3. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 3.17.3, 3.18.1, 3.22.1, 5.6.1, 5.16.2, 5.23.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

4. Irenaeus, Demonstration of The Apostolic Teaching, 22 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
adam Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 62; Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
anthropology, of irenaeus Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 62
anthropology Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
baptism Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
church Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
correction Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
creation, new Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
creation, second Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
death, function of Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 62
death, of death Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
death Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
eucharist Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
fall Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 62
gifts, from god Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 62
growth, in irenaeus' anthropology" '61.0_62.0@millennium Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 62
image and likeness Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
immortality Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
justification Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
likeness Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
mortality Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
new covenant Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
participation Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
recapitulation Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
reconciliation Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
resurrection physical Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
sabbath Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
salvation Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102
sin Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 213
telos' Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena (2013) 104
word, the Osborne, Irenaeus of Lyons (2001) 102