The Writings of Irenaeus: Vol. 1

saint Irenaeus (évêque de Lyon)

T. & T. Clark, 1868 - 480 pages

Contents

• BOOK I: 1
• CHAP: 4
• The Propator was known to Monogenes alone Ambition: 7
• Account given by the heretics of the formation of Acha: 16
• good: 24
• How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own impious opinions: 31
• Refutation of the impious interpretations of these heretics: 38
• Unity of the faith of the church throughout the whole world: 42
• The opinions of Valentinus with those of his disciples and others: 45
• The doctrines of the followers of Ptolemy and Colorbasus: 49
• The deceitful arts and nefarious practices of Marcus: 51
• The various hypotheses of Marcus and others Theories respecting letters and syllables: 56
• Sige relates to Marcus the generation of the twentyfour elements and of Jesus Exposure of these absurdities: 64
• Absurd interpretations of the Marcosians: 69
• The theory of the Marcosians that created things were made after the image of things invisible PAGE 31 38 42 45 9355 49 51 56 64 699 222: 72
• Passages from Moses which the heretics pervert to the sup port of their hypothesis: 74
• Passages of Scripture by which they attempt to prove that the Supreme Father was unknown before the coming of Christ: 78
• The apocryphal and spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians with passages of the Gospels which they pervert: 79
• The views of redemption entertained by these heretics: 81
• Deviations of heretics from the truth: 84
• Doctrines and practices of Simon Magus and Menander: 86
• Doctrines of Saturninus and Basilides: 89
• Doctrines of Carpocrates: 93
• Doctrines of Cerinthus the Ebionites and Nicolaitanes: 97
• Doctrines of Cerdo and Marcion: 98
• Doctrines of Tatian the Encratites and others: 100
• Doctrines of various other Gnostic sects and especially of the Barbeliotes or Borborians 30 Doctrines of the Ophites and Sethians 31 Doctrines of the ...: 101
• BOOK II: 116
• the impossibility of its being other wise: 117
• The world was not formed by angels or by any other being: 120
• This world was not formed by any other beings within: 129
• Created things are not a shadow of the Pleroma: 140
• The heretics from their disbelief of the truth have fallen: 146
• The first order of production maintained by the heretics: 152
• Valentinus and his followers derived the principles of their: 160
• No account can be given of these productions: 168
• Sophia was never really in ignorance or passion her Enthy: 180
• Absurdities of the heretics as to their own origin their: 184
• Futility of the arguments adduced to demonstrate the suf: 190
• The thirty Æons are not typified by the fact that Christ: 196
• The woman who suffered from an issue of blood was no type: 203
• God is not to be sought after by means of letters syllables: 212
• Refutation of the views of the heretics as to the future: 228
• Recapitulation and application of the foregoing arguments: 239
• Absurdity of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls: 247
• Refutation of Basilides and of the opinion that the prophets: 253
• The Holy Ghost throughout the Old Testament Scriptures: 268
• Answer to an objection arising from the words of Christ: 275
• Proofs of the foregoing drawn from the Gospels of Mark: 281
• Proofs in continuation extracted from St Johns Gospel: 287
• The doctrine of the rest of the apostles: 296
• Refutation of the opinion that Paul was the only apostle: 314
• Refutation of the Ebionites who disparaged the authority: 320
• Proofs from the apostolic writings that Jesus Christ: 323
• The apostles teach that it was neither Christ nor the Saviour: 334
• Jesus Christ was not a mere man begotten from Joseph: 344
• A vindication of the prophecy in Isaiah vii 14 against: 351
• Christ assumed actual flesh conceived and born of: 359
• Recapitulation of the various arguments adduced against: 369
• PREFACE: 375
• The Old Testament Scriptures and those written by Moses: 403
• Christ did not abrogate the natural precepts of the law: 412
• At first God deemed it sufficient to inscribe the natural law: 419
• Proof that God did not appoint the Levitical dispensation: 425
• Concerning sacrifices and oblations and those who truly: 431
• CHAP PAGE: 436
• Abrahams faith was identical with ours this faith was pre: 451
• The conversion of the Gentiles was more difficult than that: 457
• The sins of the men of old time which incurred the dis: 465
• Those persons prove themselves senseless who exaggerate: 471
• NOTE: 491

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Writings of Irenaeus: Vol. 1; Volume 5 of Ante-Nicene Christian library : translations of the writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325; Ante-Nicene Christian library; Volume 1 of The writings of Irenaeus, Irenaeus (évêque de Lyon, saint. -)
• Author: saint Irenaeus (évêque de Lyon)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark, 1868
• Original from: University of Lausanne
• Digitized: May 20, 2009
• Length: 480 pages