Irenaeus Against Heresies, v3
BOOK III.
- PREFACE.
- CHAP. I.—THE APOSTLES DID NOT COMMENCE TO PREACH
THE GOSPEL, OR TO PLACE ANYTHING ON RECORD, UNTIL THEY WERE ENDOWED
WITH THE GIFTS AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEY PREACHED ONE GOD
ALONE, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
- CHAP. II.—THE HERETICS FOLLOW NEITHER SCRIPTURE
NOR TRADITION.
- CHAP. III.—A REFUTATION OF THE HERETICS, FROM
THE FACT THAT, IN THE VARIOUS CHURCHES, A PERPETUAL SUCCESSION OF
BISHOPS WAS KEPT UP.
- CHAP. IV.—THE TRUTH IS TO BE FOUND NOWHERE ELSE
BUT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE SOLE DEPOSITORY OF APOSTOLICAL
DOCTRINE. HERESIES ARE OF RECENT FORMATION, AND CANNOT TRACE THEIR
ORIGIN UP TO THE APOSTLES.
- CHAP. V. — CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES, WITHOUT ANY
FRAUD, DECEPTION, OR HYPOCRISY, PREACHED THAT ONE GOD, THE FATHER, WAS
THE FOUNDER OF ALL THINGS. THEY DID NOT ACCOMMODATE THEIR DOCTRINETO
THE PREPOSSESSIONS OF THEIR HEARERS.
- CHAP. VI — THE HOLY GHOST, THROUGHOUT THE OLD
TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, MADE MENTION OF NO OTHER GOD OR LORD, SAVE HIM
WHO IS THE TRUE GOD.
- CHAP. VII. — REPLY TO AN OBJECTION FOUNDED ON
THE WORDS OF ST. PAUL (2 Cor. IV. 5). ST. PAUL OCCASIONALLY USES WORDS
NOT IN THEIR GRAMMATICAL, SEQUENCE.
- CHAP. VIII. — ANSWER TO AN OBJECTION, ARISING
FROM THE WORDS OF CHRIST (MATT. VI. 24). GOD ALONE IS TO BE REALLY
CALLED GOD AND LORD, FOR HE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING AND END.
- CHAP. IX. — ONE AND THE SAME GOD, THE CREATOR
OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, IS HE WHOM THE PROPHETS FORETOLD, AND WHO WAS
DECLARED BY THE GOSPEL. PROOF OF THIS, AT THE OUTSET, FROM ST.
MATTHEW'S GOSPEL.
- CHAP. X.—PROOFS OF THE FOREGOING, DRAWN FROM
THE GOSPELS OF MARK AND LUKE.
- CHAP. XI—PROOFS IN CONTINUATION, EXTRACTED FROM
ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL. THE GOSPELS ARE FOUR IN NUMBER, NEITHER MORE NOR
LESS. MYSTIC REASONS FOR THIS.
- CHAP. XII. —DOCTRINE OF THE REST OF THE
APOSTLES.
- CHAP. XIII—REFUTATION OF THE OPINION, THAT PAUL
WAS THE ONLY APOSTLE WHO HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
- CHAP. XIV.—IF PAUL HAD KNOWN ANY MYSTERIES
UNREVEALED TO THE OTHER APOSTLES, LUKE, HIS CONSTANT COMPANION AND
FELLOW-TRAVELLER, COULD NOT HAVE BEEN IGNORANT OF THEM; NEITHER COULD
THE TRUTH HAVE POSSIBLY LAIN HID FROM HIM, THROUGH WHOM ALONE WE LEARN
MANY AND MOST IMPORTANT PARTICULARS OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY.
- CHAP. XV.—REFUTATION OF THE EBIONITES, WHO
DISPARAGED THE AUTHORITY OF ST. PAUL, FROM THE WRITINGS OF ST. LUKE,
WHICH MUST BE RECEIVED AS A WHOLE. EXPOSURE OF THE HYPOCRISY, DECEIT,
AND PRIDE OF THE GNOSTICS. THE APOSTLES AND THEIR DISCIPLES KNEW AND
PREACHED ONE GOD, THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD.
- CHAP. XVI.—PROOFS FROM THE APOSTOLIC WRITINGS,
THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS ONE AND THE SAME, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD,
PERFECT GOD AND PERFECT MAN.
- CHAP. XVII.—THE APOSTLES TEACH THAT IT WAS
NEITHER CHRIST NOR THE SAVIOUR, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO DID DESCEND
UPON JESUS. THE REASON FOR THIS DESCENT.
- CHAP. XVIII.—CONTINUATION OF THE FOREGOING
ARGUMENT. PROOFS FROM THE WRITINGS OF ST. PAUL, AND FROM THE WORDS OF
OUR LORD, THAT CHRIST AND JESUS CANNOT BE CONSIDERED AS DISTINCT
BEINGS; NEITHER CAN IT BE ALLEGED THAT THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN MERELY
IN APPEARANCE, BUT THAT HE DID SO TRULY AND ACTUALLY.
- CHAP. XIX.—JESUS CHRIST WAS NOT A MERE MAN,
BEGOTTEN FROM JOSEPH IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF NATURE, BUT WAS VERY
GOD, BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER MOST HIGH, AND VERY MAN, BORN' OF THE
VIRGIN.
- CHAP.XX.—GOD SHOWED HIMSELF, BY THE FALL OF
MAN, AS PATIENT, BENIGN, MERCIFUL, MIGHTY TO SAVE. MAN IS THEREFORE
MOST UNGRATEFUL, IF, UNMINDFUL OF HIS OWN LOT, AND OF THE BENEFITS HELD
OUT TO HIM, HE DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE DIVINE GRACE.
- CHAP. XXI.—A VINDICATION OF THE PROPHECY IN
ISAIAH (VII. 14) AGAINST THE MISINTERPRETATIONS OF THEODOTION, AQUILA,
THE EBIONITES, AND THE JEWS. AUTHORITY OF THE SEPTUAGINT VERSION.
ARGUMENTS IN PROOF THAT CHRIST WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN.
- CHAP. XXII.—CHRIST ASSUMED ACTUAL FLESH,
CONCEIVED AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN.
- CHAP. XXIII.—ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION TO TATIAN,
SHOWING THAT IT WAS CONSONANT TO DIVINE JUSTICE AND MERCY THAT THE
FIRST ADAM SHOULD FIRST PARTAKE IN THAT SALVATION OFFERED TO ALL BY
CHRIST.
- CHAP. XXIV.—RECAPITULATION OF THE VARIOUS
ARGUMENTS ADDUCED AGAINST GNOSTIC IMPIETY UNDER ALL ITS ASPECTS. THE
HERETICS, TOSSED ABOUT BY EVERY BLAST OF DOCTRINE, ARE OPPOSED BY THE
UNIFORM TEACHING OF THE CHURCH, WHICH REMAINS SO ALWAYS, AND IS
CONSISTENT WITH ITSELF.
- CHAP. XXV.—THIS WORLD IS RULED PROVIDENCE OF
ONE GOD, WHO IS BOTH ENDOWED WITH INFINITE JUSTICE TO PUNISH THE
WICKED, AND WITH INFINITE GOODNESS TO BLESS THE PIOUS, AND IMPART TO
THEM SALVATION.
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