Against Heresies 5.34.1–5.36.3

Irenaeus of Lyons · Against Heresies · ca. 180–190 · Lyons · 9 passages

Latin text: Harvey 1857 (Latin text: Harvey (1857), transcribed from archive.org OCR of the printed volumes; section numbers checked against Stieren (1853)).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0). Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885), Irenaeus, Against Heresies.

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Against 5, chapter 34

5.34.1Harvey 2:319

Ipse autem Esaias manifeste annuntiavit tale gaudium in resurrectione justorum futurum, sic dicens: Resurgent mortui, et surgent qui in monumentis sunt, et letabuntur qui sunt in terra. Ros enim qui a te sanitas est eis. Hoc idem et Ezechiel ait; Ecce ego aperiam monumenta vestra, et educam vos de monumentis vestris, in quo educam de sepulchris populum meum, et dabo spiritum in vobis, et vivetis, et ponam vos super terram vestram, et cognoscetis quoniam ego sum Dominus. Et iterum idem sic ait: Haec dicit Dominus: Colligam Israel ab omnibus gentibus, ubi dispersi sunt illic, et sanctificabor in eis in conspectu filiorum gentium: et habitabunt super terram suam, quam dedi servo meo Jacob, et inhabitabunt super eam in spe, et aedificabunt domos, et plantabunt vineas, et inhabitabunt in spe, quando faciam judicium in omnibus qui inhonoraverunt eos, in iis qui in circuitu sunt eorum, et cognoscent quoniam ego sum Dominus Deus ipsorum, et Deus Patrum ipsorum. Ostendimus autem paulo ante, quoniam Ecclesia est semen Abrahs: et propter hoc, ut sciamus quoniam in novo Testamento … veteri, qui ex omnibus gentibus colliget eos qui salvabuntur, ex lapidibus suscitans filios Abrahae, Jeremias ait: Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et non dicent adhuc, Vivit Dominus, qui eduxit filios Israel ab Aquilone …, et ab omni regione quo expulsi fuerant, restituet illos in terram ipsorum, quam dedit patribus ipsorum.

And Isaiah himself plainly announced that there will be such joy at the resurrection of the just, saying: “The dead will rise, and those in the tombs will arise, and those who are in the earth will rejoice; for the dew from you is health to them.” And Ezekiel says the same: “Behold, I will open your tombs and bring you out of your tombs, when I bring my people out of the graves; and I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live; and I will set you on your land, and you will know that I am the Lord.” And again the same says thus: “Thus says the Lord: I will gather Israel from all the nations where they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified in them before the sons of the nations; and they will dwell on their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob, and dwell on it in hope, and build houses and plant vineyards, and dwell in hope, when I execute judgment on all who have dishonoured them, among those around them; and they will know that I am the Lord their God and the God of their fathers.” And we showed a little earlier that the Church is the seed of Abraham; and for this reason, so that we may know that it is he who in the new covenant raises up children to Abraham from the stones … in the old, who will gather from all nations those who will be saved, Jeremiah says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they will no longer say, ‘The Lord lives, who brought the sons of Israel out of the north’, … and from every region to which they had been driven; he will restore them to their land, which he gave to their fathers.”

Isa 26:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 37:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 37:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 37:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 28:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Ezek 28:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 3:9 (allusion, high confidence) · Jer 23:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 23:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 16:14 (allusion, medium confidence)

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Summary: Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah foretell the resurrection of the just and the gathering of God’s people, the Church as Abraham’s seed, to dwell in their land.

Harvey’s chapter title (“He concludes his view of the temporal and earthly kingdom of the saints after the resurrection with testimonies of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and the parable of the watchful servants”) and notes were removed. The middle of the last sentence is disturbed in the OCR (“…”), and the quotation of Jeremiah runs together two clauses; translated by sense. The application of these promises to the Church is translated as written. Quotations: Isa 26:19; Ezek 37:12–14; Ezek 28:25–26; Matt 3:9; Jer 23:7–8 (16:14–15).

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; stray mark; OCR slips; words lost in the OCR; editor's chapter title; OCR slip; margin debris; margin reference; margin reference inside a word; OCR slip; margin reference; OCR slip; margin references; Harvey's notes; OCR slips; split word; stray mark; stray mark; OCR slip; words lost in the OCR): Sententiam. suam, de temporal: et terreno sanctorum Regno a resurrectione claudit. varius Esaiae, Ezechielis, Hieremia, et Danielis testumonus, atque parabola vigilantium servorum, quibus se ministraturum Dominus pollicetur. Iesr autem Esaias → Ipse autem Esaias; mortut, et surxxvi. gent → mortui, et surgent; sanitas est es. → sanitas est eis.; Ecce ego Erek. aperiam monumenta, vestra, σέ educam vos de monumentis vestris, p. 425, n. I. καρπόν. 1 in quo educam de sepulchris populum meum, et dabo spiritum ἐπ GR. V xxxiv. colis et vivetis → Ecce ego aperiam monumenta vestra, et educam vos de monumentis vestris, in quo educam de sepulchris populum meum, et dabo spiritum in vobis, et vivetis; cognoscetis xxiv. 1 quoniam → cognoscetis quoniam; sic ait: Hac dicit E»k xxvill. Dominus → sic ait: Haec dicit Dominus; dispersi sunt 6.4% illic → dispersi sunt illic; conspectu. filiorum → conspectu filiorum; habi. tabunt → habitabunt; et tnhabitabunt → et inhabitabunt; et. adificabunt → et aedificabunt; inhonoraverunt 608, in iis qui in circuttu sunt eorum, et. cognoscent → inhonoraverunt eos, in iis qui in circuitu sunt eorum, et cognoscent; Testamento 18 veteri → Testamento … veteri; Jeremias ait: Je.xui.7, Ecce → Jeremias ait: Ecce; dici Dominus, et non dicent. adhuc, Vivi Dominus, qui eduait filios Israel Ξαὖ Aquilone → dicit Dominus, et non dicent adhuc, Vivit Dominus, qui eduxit filios Israel ab Aquilone …; terram. ipsorum → terram ipsorum.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.34.1 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-34-1).

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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the ancient Latin translation as printed by Harvey (Cambridge, 1857), from the OCR of the printed edition with slips corrected as logged, in Massuet's section numbering; lines lost in the scan supplied from Stieren's edition (1848–53) where noted; each batch compared afterwards with the public-domain translation in ANF 1 (1885).

5.34.2Harvey 2:319

Quoniam creatura omnis secundum voluntatem ad incrementum et augmentum erit, ut tales afferat et nutriat fructus, Esaias ait: Et erit super omnem montem altum, et super omnem collem editum aqua pertransiens in die illa, quando perient multi, quando concident muri. Et erit lumen lune quasi lumen solis, septuplum diei, quando sanabit contritionem populi sui, et dolorem plage sue sanabit. Dolor autem plagae est, per quam percussus est homo initio in Adam inobediens, hoc est, mors, quam sanabit Deus resuscitans nos a mortuis, et restituens in patrum haereditatem, quemadmodum iterum Esaias ait: Et eris fidens in Domino, et faciet te ingredi supra omnem terram, et cibabit te haereditate Jacob patris tui. Hoc est quod a Domino dictum est: Beati servi illi, quos veniens Dominus inveniet vigilantes. Amen dico vobis, quoniam precingetur, et recumbere eos faciet, et transiens ministrabit eis. Et si venerit vespertina vigilia, et invenerit sic, beati sunt, quoniam recumbere eos faciet, et ministrabit eis: licet secunda, et licet tertia, beati sunt. Hoc autem idem et Johannes in Apocalypsi ait: Beatus et sanctus, qui habet partem in resurrectione prima. Et tempus autem annuntiavit Esaias in quo haec erunt: Et dixi, inquit, Usquequo Domine? Quoadusque desolentur civitates ad non inhabitandum, et domus ut non sint homines, et terra derelinquetur deserta. Et post hac longe nos faciet Deus homines, et qui remanserint multiplicabuntur super terram. Sed et Daniel hoc ipsum ait: Et regnum et potestas et magnitudo eorum quac sub colo sunt, datum est sanctis altissimi Dei, et regnum ejus sempiternum, et omnes principatus servient ei et obedient. Et ne ad hoc tempus putetur dicta repromissio, dictum est prophetae: Et tu veni, et sta in sorte tua in consummatione dierum.

That all creation, according to God’s will, will be for increase and growth, so as to bear and nourish such fruits, Isaiah says: “And on every high mountain and on every lofty hill there will be water running through on that day, when many perish, when walls fall. And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, sevenfold that of the day, when he heals the brokenness of his people and heals the pain of his wound.” The pain of the wound is that by which man was struck at the beginning in Adam, disobedient, that is, death, which God will heal by raising us from the dead and restoring us to the inheritance of the fathers; as Isaiah says again: “And you will trust in the Lord, and he will make you go over all the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Jacob your father.” This is what was said by the Lord: “Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he comes, finds watching. Truly I tell you, he will gird himself and make them recline, and coming he will serve them. And if he comes in the evening watch and finds them so, they are blessed, because he will make them recline and will serve them; whether in the second or in the third, they are blessed.” And John too says the same in the Apocalypse: “Blessed and holy is he who has a part in the first resurrection.” And Isaiah announced the time in which these things will be: “And I said,” he says, “How long, O Lord? Until the cities are laid waste so as not to be inhabited, and the houses so that there are no men, and the land is left desolate. And after this God will remove us men far away, and those who remain will multiply on the earth.” And Daniel too says this very thing: “And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of those under heaven was given to the saints of the most high God, and his kingdom is everlasting, and all dominions will serve and obey him.” And lest the promise be thought to refer to this time, it was said to the prophet: “And you, come and stand in your lot at the consummation of the days.”

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Isa 30:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 30:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 58:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 12:37 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 12:38 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 20:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 6:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 6:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 7:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Dan 12:13 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Isaiah’s fruitful earth and healed wound, Christ’s promise to serve his watchful servants, John’s first resurrection, and Daniel’s kingdom of the saints all point to the kingdom of the just.

Words lost in the scan of Harvey's edition are supplied from Stieren's edition. Quotations: Isa 30:25–26; Isa 58:14; Luke 12:37–38; Rev 20:6; Isa 6:11–12; Dan 7:27; Dan 12:13.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; words lost in the OCR; margin debris; margin debris; words lost in the OCR; margin reference inside a word; margin reference; OCR slips; margin reference; stray marks; running head; OCR slips; stray mark): Ent. xxx.95, Esaias ait: E erif super omnem montem. altum, et super omnem collem editwm aqua pertransions → Esaias ait: Et erit super omnem montem altum, et super omnem collem editum aqua pertransiens; lumen. solis → lumen solis; E! eris fidens → Et eris fidens; ingredi * supra → ingredi supra; horeditate Jacob → haereditate Jacob; Beats LIB. V; servi lh, quos veniens. Dominus → Beati servi illi, quos veniens Dominus; Amen dico GR. RV ax vobis → Amen dico vobis; venerit vespertina, vigilia → venerit vespertina vigilia; licel secunda → licet secunda; resurApoc. xx. & rectione → resurrectione; Et dizi → Et dixi; desolentur Esa. τὶ. 11. civitates ad. non inhabitandum, et domus ut non sint. homines → desolentur civitates ad non inhabitandum, et domus ut non sint homines; magnitudo v7. eorum → magnitudo eorum; Et tu vent, et sta → Et tu veni, et sta.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.34.2 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-34-2).

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5.34.3Harvey 2:319

Quoniam autem repromissiones non solum prophetis et patribus, sed Ecclesiis ex gentibus coadunatis annuntiabantur, quas et insulas nuncupat Spiritus, et quod in medio turbulae sint constitutse, et tempestatem blasphemiorum sufferant, et salutaris portus periclitantibus exsistant, et refugium sunt eorum, qui altitudinem ament: et Bythum, id est profundum, erroris conantur effugere, Jeremias ita ait: Audite verbum Domini gentes, annuntiate insulis que longe sunt: dicite, Quia ventilabit Deus Israel, congregabit eum, et custodiet eum, sicut pascens gregem ovium suarum: quoniam redemit. Dominus Jacob, et eripuit eum de manu fortioris ejus. Et venient, et latabuntur in monte Sion, et venient ad bona, et in terram tritici et vini et fructuum, et animalium et ovium, et erit anima eorum sicut lignum fructiferum, et non esurient adhuc. Et tunc gaudebunt virgines in congregatione juvenum, et seniores gaudebunt, et convertam luctum eorum in gaudium, et faciam eos in exultatione, et magnificabo, et inebriabo animam sacerdotum filiorum Levi, et populus meus bonis meis adimplebitur. Ostendimus autem in superiori libro, quoniam Levitae et sacerdotes sunt discipuli omnes Domini: qui et sabbatum in templo profanabant, et sine culpa sunt. Tales itaque promissiones manifestissime in regno justorum istius creature epulationem significant, quam Deus repromittit ministraturum se.

And that the promises were announced not only to the prophets and the fathers but to the churches gathered from the nations, which the Spirit also calls islands, both because they are set in the midst of turmoil and endure the storm of blasphemies, and are a harbour of safety to those in danger, and a refuge for those who love the heights and try to escape Bythus, that is, the depth of error, Jeremiah says thus: “Hear the word of the Lord, you nations; announce it to the islands far away; say that God will winnow Israel, will gather him and guard him like one who pastures his flock of sheep; for the Lord has redeemed Jacob and rescued him from the hand of one stronger than he. And they will come and rejoice on Mount Zion, and come to good things, to a land of wheat and wine and fruits, of animals and sheep; and their soul will be like a fruitful tree, and they will hunger no more. And then the virgins will rejoice in the company of young men, and the old men will rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and make them exult, and magnify them, and fill to overflowing the soul of the priests, the sons of Levi; and my people will be filled with my good things.” And we showed in the preceding book that all the Lord’s disciples are Levites and priests, who profaned the sabbath in the temple and are blameless. Such promises, then, most plainly signify the feast of this creation in the kingdom of the just, at which God promises that he himself will serve.

Jer 31:10 (38:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 31:11 (38:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 31:12 (38:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 31:13 (38:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 31:14 (38:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 12:5 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Jeremiah’s promises to the islands, the churches of the nations, of plenty and joy on Mount Zion signify the feast of the renewed creation in the kingdom of the just.

The play on Bythus (the Valentinian Aeon “Depth”) is Irenaeus’s. Quotations and allusions: Jer 31:10–14 (LXX 38:10–14); Matt 12:5; the reference is to 4.8.3.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip; margin debris; line number; OCR slip; stray mark; margin debris; stray marks; running head): οὐ refugium → et refugium; 5eerbum Domini | gentes → verbum Domini gentes; custodiet. eum, sicut. pascens gregem LIB.V. ovium → custodiet eum, sicut pascens gregem ovium; eripuit eum ony. xxxlv. de manu → eripuit eum de manu; Ston, eae, δ᾽ et venient → Sion, et venient; et vint et → et vini et; magnificabo, δέ inebriabo → magnificabo, et inebriabo.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.34.3 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-34-3).

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5.34.4Harvey 2:319

Adhuc de Hierusalem, et de regnante in ea, Esaias ait: Haec dicit Dominus: Beatus qui habet in Sion semen, et domesticos in Hierusalem. Ecce Rex justus regnabit, et principes cum judicio principabunt. Et de preparatione, in qua reaedificabitur, ait: Ecce ego preparabo tibi carbunculum lapidem, et fundamenta tua sapphirum, et ponam propugnacula tua jasphin, et portas tuas lapidem crystallum, et circumvallum tuum lapides electos, et omnes filios tuos docibiles Dei, et in multa pace filios tuos, et in justitia aedificaberis. Et iterum idem ipse ait: Ecce ego facio Hierusalem exultationem et plebem meam: etiam non audietur in ea vox fletus neque vox clamoris, etiam non fiet ibi immaturus et senior, qui non impleat tempus suum. Erit enim juvenis annorum centum: moriens autem peccator centum annorum, et maledictus erit. Et aedificabunt domus, et ipsi inhabitabunt: et plantabunt vineas, et ipsi manducabunt fructus earum, et vinum bibent. Et non ipsi edificabunt, et alii inhabitabunt: neque ipsi pastinabunt, et alii comedent. Secundum enim dies ligni vite erunt dies plebis in te: opera enim laborum eorum veterascent.

Further, of Jerusalem and of the one who reigns in it, Isaiah says: “Thus says the Lord: Blessed is he who has seed in Zion and servants in Jerusalem. Behold, a just king will reign, and princes will rule with judgment.” And of the preparation with which it will be rebuilt he says: “Behold, I will prepare for you a carbuncle stone, and your foundations of sapphire; and I will make your battlements of jasper, and your gates of crystal stone, and your surrounding wall of choice stones; and all your children taught by God, and your children in great peace; and in righteousness you will be built.” And again he says: “Behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people; and the voice of weeping will no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying; and there will no longer be there one untimely, nor an old man who does not fulfil his time. For the young man will be a hundred years old, and the sinner dying at a hundred years will also be accursed. And they will build houses and live in them themselves, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit themselves and drink the wine. And they will not build and others live in them, nor plant and others eat. For as the days of the tree of life will be the days of the people in you; for the works of their labours will endure long.”

Isa 31:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 32:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 54:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 54:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 54:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 54:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:22 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Isaiah foretells a righteous king in Jerusalem, rebuilt with precious stones, where the people will live long, build, and plant in peace.

Margin references were removed. Quotations: Isa 31:9–32:1; Isa 54:11–14; Isa 65:18–22.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; margin debris; margin debris; OCR slip; margin reference; margin reference; OCR slip; margin reference; OCR slips; stray mark): ait: M. 335 Beal xxxi. 8, Hac dicit Dominus → ait: Haec dicit Dominus; domesticos tn xxil.. Hierusalem. Ecce Rew justus → domesticos in Hierusalem. Ecce Rex justus; ait: Esai tiv. — Ecce ego → ait: Ecce ego; filios tuos. docibiles → filios tuos docibiles; in justitia Eulixy. — cdificaberis → in justitia aedificaberis; voae fletus → vox fletus; suum. — Erit → suum. Erit; σὲ maledictus → et maledictus; Ht aedijficabunt → Et aedificabunt; alti inhabitabunt: neque $psi. pastinabunt → alii inhabitabunt: neque ipsi pastinabunt; dies plobis → dies plebis; veterascent. ο. 458. → veterascent..

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.34.4 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-34-4).

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Against 5, chapter 35

5.35.1Harvey 2:319

Si autem quidam tentaverint allegorisare heec que ejusmodi sunt, neque de omnibus poterunt consonantes sibimetipsis inveniri, et convincentur ab ipsis dictionibus disserentibus, quoniam cum desolate fuerint civitates gentium, et quod non inhabitentur, et domus, eo quod non sint homines, et derelinquetur terra deserta; Ecce enim, Esaias ait, dies Domini insanabilis venit, furore et ira plenus, ponere urbem. terre desertam, et peccatores perdere ex ea. Et iterum ait: Tollatur, ut non videat gloriam Domini, et cum haec facta fuerint, elongabit, inquit, Deus homines, et derelicti multiplicabuntur in terra. Et aedificabunt domus, et ipsi inhabitabunt, et pastinabunt vineas, et ipsi manducabunt. Haec enim et alia universa in resurrectionem justorum sine controversia dicta sunt, quae fit post adventum Antichristi, et perditionem omnium gentium sub eo exsistentium, in qua regnabunt justi in terra, crescentes ex visione Domini, et per ipsum assuescent capere gloriam Dei Patris, et cum sanctis angelis conversationem et communionem, et unitatem spiritalium in regno capient: et illos quos Dominus in carne inveniet, exspectantes eum de coelis, et perpessos tribulationem, qui et effugerint iniqui manus. Ipsi autem sunt de quibus ait propheta: et derelicti multiplicabuntur in terra. Et quotquot ex credentibus ad hoc praeparavit Deus, ad derelictos multiplicandos in terra, et sub Regno Sanctorum fieri, et ministrare huic Hierusalem, et regnum in ea, significavit Jeremias propheta: Circumspice, dicens, ad Orientem Hierusalem, et vide laetitiam que adventat tibi ab ipso Deo. Ecce venient filii tui quos emisisti, venient collecti ab Oriente usque ad Occidentem verbo illius sancti, gaudentes ea que a Deo tuo est claritate. Exuere Hierusalem habitum luctus et afflictionis tuae, et induere decorem ejus que a Deo tuo est claritatis in aeternum: circumdare amictum duplicem ejus que a Deo tuo est justitiv, impone mitram super caput tuum glorie aterne. Deus enim demonstrabit ei quae sub calo est universo tuum fulgorem. Vocabitur namque nomen tuum ab ipso Deo in eternum, pax justitia et gloric colenti Deo. Surge Hierusalem, et sta in excelso, et circumspice ad Orientem, et vide collectos filios tuos a Solis ortu usque ad Occidentem verbo illius sancti, gaudentes ipsam Dei recordationem. Profecti sunt enim a te pedites, dum adducerentur ab inimicis. Introducet illos Deus ad te portatus cum gloria tanquam thronus regm. Decrevit enim Deus ut humilietur omnis mons excelsus, et congeries eterno, et ut valles impleantur, ad redigendam planitiem. terre, ut ambulet Israel tute Dei gloria. Umbracula autem intexuerunt syloco, et omne lignum boni odoris ipsi Israel precepto Dei. Praeibit enim Deus cum letitia lumine claritatis sue, cum misericordia et justitia, qua ab ipso est.

But if some try to allegorize such things, they will not be found consistent with themselves on all points, and they will be refuted by the very words, which declare: “When the cities of the nations are laid waste so as not to be inhabited, and the houses, because there are no men, and the land is left desolate.” “For behold,” Isaiah says, “the day of the Lord comes, incurable, full of fury and wrath, to make the city of the earth desolate and destroy sinners from it.” And again he says: “Let him be taken away, so that he does not see the glory of the Lord.” And when these things have been done, he says, “God will remove men far away, and those who are left will multiply on the earth.” “And they will build houses and live in them themselves, and plant vineyards and eat of them themselves.” For all these and other such things were said without dispute of the resurrection of the just, which takes place after the coming of the Antichrist and the destruction of all the nations under him; in which the just will reign on the earth, growing by the sight of the Lord, and through him they will grow accustomed to receive the glory of God the Father, and in the kingdom they will receive converse and communion with the holy angels, and union with spiritual beings; and those whom the Lord finds in the flesh, awaiting him from heaven, who have suffered tribulation and escaped the hands of the wicked one. They are the ones of whom the prophet says: “And those who are left will multiply on the earth.” And all of the believers whom God has prepared for this, to multiply those left on the earth, to be under the kingdom of the saints and to serve this Jerusalem, and that the kingdom is in it, the prophet Jeremiah signified, saying: “Look around to the east, Jerusalem, and see the joy that comes to you from God himself. Behold, your sons whom you sent away are coming, gathered from the east to the west by the word of the holy one, rejoicing in the glory that is from your God. Put off, Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and put on the beauty of the glory that is from your God for ever. Put round you the double robe of the righteousness that is from your God; set on your head the mitre of eternal glory. For God will show your splendour to the whole world under heaven. For your name will be called by God himself for ever: Peace of righteousness, and glory to the one who worships God. Arise, Jerusalem, and stand on the height, and look around to the east, and see your sons gathered from the rising of the sun to the west by the word of the holy one, rejoicing in the very remembrance of God. For they went out from you on foot, while they were led away by enemies; God will bring them in to you, carried with glory like a royal throne. For God has decreed that every high mountain and the everlasting heaps be brought low, and that the valleys be filled, to level the ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God. And the woods have woven shade, and every fragrant tree, for Israel itself by God’s command. For God will go before with joy, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that are from him.”

Isa 6:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 13:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 26:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 6:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:21 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The prophecies cannot be allegorized away; they will be fulfilled after the Antichrist in the resurrection of the just, when they reign in a restored Jerusalem, as the prophet (Baruch) foretells.

Harvey’s chapter title (“He maintains that the foregoing testimonies cannot be understood allegorically of heavenly goods alone, but are to be fulfilled after the coming of the Antichrist and the resurrection in the earthly Jerusalem”) was removed. The long prophecy Irenaeus attributes to Jeremiah is Baruch 4:36–5:9 (Baruch was often read as part of Jeremiah). The millennial interpretation is translated as written. Quotations: Isa 6:11; Isa 13:9; Isa 26:10 (LXX); Isa 6:12; Isa 65:21.

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Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; OCR slips; note marker; editor's chapter title; OCR slip; margin debris; margin debris; OCR slip; margin reference; margin reference inside a word; margin reference; OCR slips; margin reference; OCR slips; stray marks; stray mark): Contendit superiora testimonia, non posse per allegoriam de bonis tantum. calestibus intelligi, sed implenda esse post adventum. Antichristi, et resurrectionem im terrena. Jerusalem; | prioribusque prophetus, ex Esaia, Hieremia, et Johannis Apocalypsi alias Sr: autem → Si autem; cioitates gentium, et. quod non tnhabitentur, resi. vi. 11. et domus, eo quod non sint. homines → civitates gentium, et quod non inhabitentur, et domus, eo quod non sint homines; deserta; ! Ecce enim → deserta; Ecce enim; dies Domint insanabilis → dies Domini insanabilis; ira Ἐπὶ. xui. 9. plenus → ira plenus; Tol/atur → Tollatur; gloriam Domint, et cum hsec zai xxvi. facta → gloriam Domini, et cum haec facta; multipliEsai. vi 12. cabuntur → multiplicabuntur; Et edyicabunt → Et aedificabunt; inhabitabunt, et xau. xxv. 21. pastinabunt → inhabitabunt, et pastinabunt; Heec enim alia universa 2in resurrectionem → Haec enim et alia universa in resurrectionem; que fit un. ¥. post adventum → quae fit post adventum; sub Gn. V-xxxv.eo exsistentium → sub eo exsistentium; crescentes ex xxxv.1. yisione → crescentes ex visione; ef derelicti → et derelicti; significavit ! Jeremias → significavit Jeremias; et vide a. «». lestitiam → et vide laetitiam; emisistt → emisisti; afflictionis tum → afflictionis tuae; claritatis tn ternum → claritatis in aeternum; sta tn excelso → sta in excelso; ab $nimicis → ab inimicis; Praribit → Praeibit.

Extrabiblical texts: Bar 4:36–5.9 (Baruch [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.35.1 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-35-1).

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5.35.2Harvey 2:319

Heec autem talia universa non in supercaelestibus possunt intelligi: Deus enim, ait, demonstrabit ei qua sub colo est, universae tuum fulgorem; sed in Regni temporibus, revocata terra a Christo, et reaedificata Hierusalem, secundum characterem quz sursum est Hierusalem, de qua ait propheta Esaias: Ecce in manibus meis depinxi muros tuos, et in conspectu meo es semper. Et Apostolus autem scribens ad Galatas similiter ait: Illa autem quae sursum est Hierusalem libera est, que est mater omnium nostrum; non ex cogitatione erratici Aeonis dicens hoc, neque de virtute aliqua, que abscessit Pleromate, et Prunico; sed de Hierusalem que in manibus descripta est. Et ipsam descendentem in Apocalypsi vidit Johannes super terram, novam. Post enim Regni tempora, Vidi, inquit, thronum album magnum, et sedentem in eo, cujus a facie fugit terra et calum, et locus non est eis. Et illa jam qux sunt generalis resurrectionis et judicii exponit vidisse, dicens mortuos magnos et minores. Dedit, inquit, mare mortuos quos in se habuit, et mors et inferi dederunt mortuos quos apud se habuerunt: et libri adaperti sunt. Sed et vite, ait, apertus est liber, et judicati sunt mortui ex iis qua scripta erant in libris, secundum opera sua: et mors et inferi missi sunt in stagnum ignis, secundam mortem. Hoc autem est quod vocatur Gehenna, quod Dominus dixit ignem aeternum. Et si quis, inquit, non est inventus in libro vite scriptus, missus est in stagnum ignis. Et post heec ait: Vidi colum novum et terram novam: Primum enim coelum et terra abierunt, etiam mare non est. Et civitatem sanctam Hierusalem novam vidi descendentem de colo, preparatam ut sponsam ornatam viro suo. Et audivi, inquit, vocem magnam * de throno dicentem: Ecce tabernaculum Dei cum hominibus, et habitabit cum eis, et ipsi populi ejus erunt, et ipse Deus cum eis erit eorum Deus. Et delebit omnem lacrymam ab oculis eorum, et mors non erit amplius, non luctus non clamor neque dolor ulterius erit, quia prima abierunt. Et Esaias autem hoc ipsum ait: Erit enim coelum novum et terra nova, et non erunt memores priorum, neque obveniet eis in cor; sed laetitiam et exultationem invenient in ea. Hoc autem est quod ab Apostolo dictum est: Praeterit enim habitus hujus mundi. Similiter autem et Dominus ait: Terra et celum transiet. His itaque praetereuntibus super terram, novam superiorem Hierusalem ait Domini discipulus Johannes descendere, quemadmodum sponsam ornatam viro suo; et hoc esse tabernaculum Dei, in quo inhabitabit Deus eum hominibus. Hujus Hierusalem imago illa, que in priori terra Hierusalem, in qua justi praemeditantur incorruptelam, et parantur in salutem. Et hujus tabernaculi typum accepit Moyses in monte: et nihil allegorisari potest, sed omnia firma et vera, et substantiam habentia, ad fruitionem hominum justorum a Deo facta. Quomodo enim vere Deus est, qui resuscitat hominem; sic et vere resurgit homo a mortuis, et non allegorice, quemadmodum per tanta ostendimus. Et sicut vere resurgit, sic et vere praemeditabitur incorruptelam, et augebitur, et vigebit in regni temporibus, ut fiat capax glorie Patris. Deinde omnibus renovatis, vere in civitate habitabit Dei. Dixit enim, inquit, sedens super thronum: Ecce, nova facio omnia. Et dicit. Dominus; Omnia scribe, quomodo sermones fideles, et veri sunt. Et dixit mihi, Facta sunt. Et secundum rationem.

All such things cannot be understood of things above the heavens (“for God,” it says, “will show your splendour to the whole world under heaven”), but of the times of the kingdom, when the earth has been called back by Christ and Jerusalem rebuilt after the pattern of the Jerusalem above, of which the prophet Isaiah says: “Behold, I have painted your walls on my hands, and you are always before me.” And the apostle, writing to the Galatians, likewise says: “But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all”; not saying this with any thought of a wandering Aeon, or of some power that departed from the Pleroma, or of Prunicus, but of the Jerusalem drawn on the hands. And John saw her in the Apocalypse coming down, new, upon the earth. For after the times of the kingdom, he says, “I saw a great white throne, and one sitting on it, from whose face earth and heaven fled, and no place was found for them.” And he sets out that he saw the things of the general resurrection and judgment, speaking of the dead, great and small. “The sea,” he says, “gave up the dead in it, and death and the underworld gave up the dead in them; and books were opened. And the book of life,” he says, “was opened, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their works; and death and the underworld were thrown into the lake of fire, the second death.” And this is what is called Gehenna, which the Lord called eternal fire. “And if anyone,” he says, “was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” And after this he says: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard,” he says, “a great voice from the throne saying: Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them as their God. And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, nor mourning nor crying nor pain any more, because the first things have passed away.” And Isaiah too says this very thing: “For there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and they will not remember the former things, nor will they come into their heart; but they will find joy and exultation in it.” And this is what was said by the apostle: “For the form of this world is passing away.” And likewise the Lord says: “Heaven and earth will pass away.” When these things, then, have passed away, John the Lord’s disciple says that the new Jerusalem above comes down upon the earth like a bride adorned for her husband, and that this is the tabernacle of God, in which God will dwell with men. Of this Jerusalem the Jerusalem on the former earth is an image, in which the just are trained beforehand for incorruption and prepared for salvation. And of this tabernacle Moses received the pattern on the mountain. And nothing can be allegorized, but all things are firm and true and substantial, made by God for the enjoyment of just men. For as it is truly God who raises man, so man truly rises from the dead, and not allegorically, as we have shown by so many proofs. And as he truly rises, so he will truly be trained beforehand for incorruption, and will grow and flourish in the times of the kingdom, so as to become capable of the glory of the Father. Then, when all things have been made new, he will truly dwell in the city of God. “For,” it says, “the one sitting on the throne said: Behold, I make all things new. And the Lord says: Write all this, for these words are faithful and true. And he said to me: It is done.” And this is according to reason.

Isa 49:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 21:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 20:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 20:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 20:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 20:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 20:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:41 (allusion, medium confidence) · Rev 21:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 21:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 21:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 65:18 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:31 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 24:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 25:40 (allusion, high confidence) · Rev 21:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 21:6 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: These promises concern the earth in the times of the kingdom; afterwards come the general judgment and the new heaven and earth, with the new Jerusalem descending, all to be taken literally, not allegorically.

Harvey’s notes, running head, and margin references were removed. The distinction between the kingdom on earth and the later new creation is Irenaeus’s; translated as written. Quotations and allusions: Isa 49:16; Gal 4:26; Rev 21:2; Rev 20:11–15; Matt 25:41; Rev 21:1–4; Isa 65:17–18; 1 Cor 7:31; Matt 24:35; Exod 25:40; Rev 21:5–6.

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Digital text corrected (Harvey's note inside a word; Harvey's notes, page number, and running head leaked into the text; OCR slip; OCR slips; stray mark; margin debris; margin debris; OCR slip; margin reference; margin reference; OCR slip; margin reference; OCR slips; running head; stray letter; stray mark; stray marks): possunt LIB intelligi → possunt intelligi; universe GR. RAM tuum → universae tuum; terra a E Christo → terra a Christo; Ecce $n zm xlix. 16. manibus meis depinzi muros (uos, et tn conspectu → Ecce in manibus meis depinxi muros tuos, et in conspectu; J//a autem c. wv. 9s. qua sursum → Illa autem quae sursum; omnium. nostrum → omnium nostrum; erratici /Eonis → erratici Aeonis; novam. Post Ayoc xxi. 2. enim → novam. Post enim; morfuos → mortuos; inquit, Apoc xx. mare → inquit, mare; inferi. dederunt. mortuos → inferi dederunt mortuos; seternum. — Et δὶ quis → aeternum. Et si quis; Primum enim Avoc xxt. calum → Primum enim coelum; habidabit → habitabit; Erit enim eal. Inv. 17, calum novum → Erit enim coelum novum; Preterit enim | habitus hujus mundi. | Similiter → Praeterit enim habitus hujus mundi. Similiter; novam 1 — e£. Codex Alexandrinus, aliique. Sed p. 419, n. 3. edita N. T. exemplaria habent ἐκ τοῦ 3 [ta cum Ireneo Vulgatus Interpres οὐρανοῦ. Gr. 426 CCELUM NOVUM LIB. V. superiorem Hierusalem ait Domini discipulus Johannes descenoR V xxv dere, quemadmodum sponsam ornatam viro suo; et hoc esse xx:v* tabernaculum → novam superiorem Hierusalem ait Domini discipulus Johannes descendere, quemadmodum sponsam ornatam viro suo; et hoc esse tabernaculum; justi } praemeditantur → justi praemeditantur; salutem. — Et o. «e. hujus → salutem. Et hujus; substantiam ham. Syr. bentia → substantiam habentia; ostendimus.* Et sicut → ostendimus. Et sicut; fiat Prem y. capax → fiat capax; civitate Apoc. xi.5, habitabit Dei. Diwit, enim inquit → civitate habitabit Dei. Dixit enim, inquit; quomodo $$ sermones → quomodo sermones.

Topics: Eschatology, Heresy

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.35.2 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-35-2).

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Against 5, chapter 36

5.36.1Harvey 2:319

Cum sint enim veri homines, veram esse oportet et plantationem ipsorum, sed non excedere in ea quz non sunt; sed in iis quae sunt, proficere. Non enim substantia, neque materia conditionis exterminatur; (verus enim et firmus qui constituit illam:) sed figura transit mundi hujus, hoc est, in quibus transgressio facta est; quoniam veteratus est homo in ipsis. Et propter hoc figura hec temporalis facta est, praesciente omnia Deo; quemadmodum ostendimus in eo libro qui ante hunc est, et causam temporalium mundi fabricationis, secundum quod potuit, ostendimus. Praetereunte autem figura hac, et renovato homine, et vigente ad incorruptelam, ut non possit jam veterascere, erit coelum novum et terra nova, in quibus novus perseverabit homo, semper nova confabulans Deo. Et quoniam haec semper perseverabunt sine fine, Esaias ait sic: Quemadmodum enim colum novum et terra nova, que ego facio, perseverant in conspectu meo, dicit Dominus, sic stabit semen vestrum et nomen vestrum. Et quemadmodum Presbyteri dicunt, tunc qui digni fuerint caelorum conversatione, illuc transibunt, id est, in colos; alii tute Paradisi deliciis utentur; alii autem speciositatem civitatis possidebunt: ubique autem Deus videbitur, et quemadmodum digni erunt videntes eum.

For since men are real, their establishment too must be real, not vanishing into things that do not exist, but advancing among things that exist. For neither the substance nor the matter of creation is destroyed (for true and firm is he who established it), but the form of this world passes away, that is, the things in which the transgression took place, since man grew old in them. And for this reason this form was made temporary, God foreknowing all things, as we showed in the book before this, where we also showed, as far as we could, the reason for the making of the temporal world. But when this form has passed away, and man has been renewed and flourishes for incorruption, so that he can no longer grow old, there will be a new heaven and a new earth, in which the new man will remain, always conversing anew with God. And that these things will remain for ever without end, Isaiah says thus: “For as the new heaven and the new earth which I make remain before me, says the Lord, so your seed and your name will stand.” And as the elders say, then those who are worthy of a dwelling in heaven will pass there, that is, into the heavens; others will enjoy the delights of paradise; and others will possess the splendour of the city; but everywhere God will be seen, and as those who see him are worthy.

1 Cor 7:31 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 66:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 21:1 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Creation is not annihilated but renewed; in the new heaven and earth the saved will dwell in heaven, in paradise, or in the city, according to their worth, and everywhere see God.

Harvey’s chapter title (“Men will truly be raised, and the world will not be wholly destroyed; there will be various dwellings of the saints according to each one’s worth, and all things will be subject”) and a long block of his notes (on the Greek fragments of this section in John of Damascus, Andrew and Arethas of Caesarea) were removed. The teaching of the elders is reported as Irenaeus gives it. Quotations and allusions: 1 Cor 7:31; Isa 66:22. The cross-reference is to 4.3–4 (the temporal world).

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Digital text corrected (Harvey's notes, running head, and page number leaked into the text; OCR slip; editor's chapter title; OCR slip; note marker; stray mark; stray marks): Homines vere suscitabuntur, mundusque non penitus exterminabitur: erunt autem varie Sanctorum mansiones pro cujusque dignitate, et omnia subjicientur OCuw sint enim → Cum sint enim; in iis 8 sunt → in iis quae sunt; conditionis 3 ας Greca usque ad ista verba, rum cap. 64, ubi plenius et accuratius in Parallelis allegavit, tanquam dylov Damasceno comma inde corrigere licuerit. exinde descripta. edidit. sepe laudatus < Damasceni, εἰ οὐχὶ cap. 64. Andrea Halloixius in vita Irenci p. 486. διά — posui. GRAB. Priorem partem. usque ad Caesariensis priorem horum partem bisciAretha Comm. in Apoc. reperiuntur, ed. taverit in. Commentar. ad Apocalypsin, — CRAMER. Oaeon. cf. Cat. in Epp. Cath. ET TERRA NOVA. 427 exterminatur; → conditionis exterminatur;; Jigura transit → figura transit; facta est; 1 quoniam → facta est; quoniam; s&ecundum → secundum; incorruptelam, “. = ut non → incorruptelam, ut non.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.36.1 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-36-1).

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5.36.2Harvey 2:319

Esse autem distantiam hanc habitationis eorum qui centum fructificaverunt, et eorum qui sexaginta, et eorum qui triginta: quorum quidam in caelum assumentur, alii in paradiso conversabuntur, alii in civitate inhabitabunt: et propter hoc dixisse Dominum, multas esse apud Patrem mansiones. Omnia enim Dei sunt, qui omnibus aptam habitationem pr:estat. Quemadmodum Verbum ejus ait, omnibus divisum esse a Patre secundum quod quis est dignus, aut erit. Et hoc est triclinium, in quo recumbent ii, qui epulantur vocati ad nuptias. Hanc esse adordinationem et dispositionem eorum qui salvantur, dicunt Presbyteri Apostolorum discipuli, et per hujusmodi gradus proficere, et per Spiritum quidem ad Filium, per Filium autem ascendere ad Patrem; Filio deinceps cedente Patri in opus suum, quemadmodum et ab Apostolo dictum est: Quoniam oportet regnare eum, quoadusque ponat omnes inimicos sub pedibus ejus. Novissima inimica, destruetur mors. In temporibus enim Regni justus homo super terram exsistens, obliviscetur mori jam. Quando autem dixerit, inquit, omnia subjecta sunt, scilicet absque eo qui subjecit omnia. Cum autem ei fuerint subdita omnia, tunc ipse Filius subjectus erit ei, qui sibi subjecit omnia, ut sit Deus omnia in omnibus.

And they say that this is the difference of dwelling between those who bore fruit a hundredfold, those who bore sixtyfold, and those who bore thirtyfold: of whom some will be taken up into heaven, others will live in paradise, others will dwell in the city; and for this reason the Lord said that there are many dwellings with the Father. For all things are God’s, who gives to all a fitting dwelling; as his Word says, a share is assigned to all by the Father according as each is or will be worthy. And this is the banqueting hall in which those will recline who feast, having been called to the wedding. The elders, the disciples of the apostles, say that this is the arrangement and disposition of those who are saved, and that they advance by such steps, and ascend through the Spirit to the Son, and through the Son to the Father, the Son at last yielding his work to the Father, as was also said by the apostle: “For he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy, death, will be destroyed.” For in the times of the kingdom the just man, living on the earth, will forget to die. “But when it says,” he says, “that all things are subjected, it is plain that he who subjected all things is excepted. And when all things have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subject to him who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.”

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Matt 13:8 (allusion, high confidence) · John 14:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 22:10 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 15:25 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:26 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:27 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:28 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The elders teach that the saved receive different dwellings according to their fruitfulness and ascend through the Spirit to the Son and through the Son to the Father, until God is all in all.

Words lost in the scan of Harvey's edition are supplied from Stieren's edition. The teaching of the elders is reported as Irenaeus gives it. Quotations and allusions: Matt 13:8; John 14:2; Matt 22:10; 1 Cor 15:25–28.

Notes on the original text

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Topics: Eschatology, Trinity

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.36.2 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-36-2).

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5.36.3Harvey 2:319

Diligenter ergo Johannes previdit primam justorum resurrectionem, et in Regno terrae haereditatem: consonanter autem et prophete prophetaverunt de ea. Hee enim et Dominus docuit, mixtionem calicis novam in regno cum discipulis habiturum se pollicitus. Et Apostolus autem liberam futuram creaturam a servitute corruptele in libertatem gloriae filiorum Dei confessus est. Et in omnibus iis et per omnia idem Deus Pater ostenditur, qui plasmavit hominem, et haereditatem terre promisit patribus, qui eduxit illam in resurrectione justorum, et promissiones adimplet in Filii sui regnum: postea prestans illa paternaliter, quae neque oculus vidit, neque auris audivit, neque in cor hominis ascendit. Etenim unus Filius, qui voluntatem Patris perfecit; et unum genus humanum, in quo perficiuntur mysteria Dei, quem concupiscunt angeli videre, et non praevalent investigare sapientiam Dei, per quam plasma ejus conformatum et concorporatum Filio perficitur: ut progenies ejus primogenitus Verbum, descendat in facturam, hoc est in plasma, et capiatur ab eo; et factura iterum capiat Verbum, et ascendat ad eum, supergrediens angelos, et fiet secundum imaginem et similitudinem Dei.

John, then, carefully foresaw the first resurrection of the just and the inheritance in the kingdom of the earth; and the prophets prophesied of it in harmony with him. For the Lord too taught these things, promising that he would have the mixed cup new with his disciples in the kingdom. And the apostle confessed that creation will be free from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God. And in all these things and through all of them the same God the Father is shown, who formed man, and promised the inheritance of the earth to the fathers, who brought it forth in the resurrection of the just, and fulfils the promises in the kingdom of his Son; afterwards bestowing in a fatherly way the things that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have they entered into the heart of man. For there is one Son, who accomplished the Father’s will, and one human race, in which the mysteries of God are accomplished, which angels long to see, and they cannot search out the wisdom of God, through which his handiwork, conformed and incorporated with the Son, is brought to perfection: so that his offspring, the first-begotten Word, may descend to the creature, that is, to the handiwork, and be contained by it; and the creature in turn may contain the Word and ascend to him, passing beyond the angels, and become according to the image and likeness of God.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Rev 20:6 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 26:29 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 8:21 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 2:9 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 1:12 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 1:26 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: John, the prophets, the Lord, and Paul agree on the resurrection of the just and the kingdom, in which one God brings his handiwork, united to the Son, to the image and likeness of God.

Words lost in the scan of Harvey's edition are supplied from Stieren's edition. Here the work ends. Quotations and allusions: Rev 20:4–6; Matt 26:29; Rom 8:21; 1 Cor 2:9; 1 Pet 1:12; Gen 1:26.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (line number; margin debris inside a word; margin reference; margin reference inside a word; margin reference; OCR slip): disMatt xxvi. eipulis → discipulis; fom. vii. 2i. futuram → futuram; volun. 4. tatem → voluntatem; et non 1 Pet.i.12. prevalent → et non praevalent; 5fiet → fiet.

Topics: Eschatology, Christology

Cite (SBL): Irenaeus, Haer. 5.36.3 (Harvey 2:319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/irenaeus-adversus-haereses/5-34-1/#p-5-36-3).

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