• Home
  • Works
  • Introduction Guide Collaboration Sponsors / Collaborators Copyrights Contact Imprint
Bibliothek der Kirchenväter
Search
DE EN FR
Works Irenaeus of Lyon (130-202) Contra Haereses

Translation Hide
Against Heresies

2.

The father and son thus both had intercourse with the woman (whom they also call the mother of the living). When, however, 1 she could not bear nor receive into herself the greatness of the lights, they declare that she was filled to repletion, and became ebullient on the left side; and that thus their only son Christ, as belonging to the right side, and ever tending to what was higher, was immediately caught up with his mother to form an incorruptible Aeon. This constitutes the true and holy Church, which has become the appellation, the meeting together, and the union of the father of all, of the first man, of the son, of the second man, of Christ their son, and of the woman who has been mentioned.


  1. The punctuation is here difficult and doubtful.  ↩

Translation Hide
Gegen die Häresien (BKV)

2.

Als sie aber die Größe des Lichtes weder ertragen noch fassen konnte, floß und strömte sie nach der linken Seite über. So sei ihr einziger, gleichsam rechter Sohn Christus; der stieg in die Höhe und wurde samt seiner Mutter zu einem unvergänglichen Äon erhoben. Das sei die wahre und heilige Kirche, die Benennung, Verbindung und Vereinigung des Allvaters, des ersten Menschen und seines Sohnes, des zweiten Menschen, und Christi, des Sohnes beider, und des genannten Weibes.

  Print   Report an error
  • Show the text
  • Bibliographic Reference
  • Scans for this version
Translations of this Work
Against Heresies
Gegen die Häresien (BKV)
Commentaries for this Work
Introductory Note to Irenaeus Against Heresies

Contents

Faculty of Theology, Patristics and History of the Early Church
Miséricorde, Av. Europe 20, CH 1700 Fribourg

© 2025 Gregor Emmenegger
Imprint
Privacy policy