Works Irenaeus of Lyon (130-202) Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

XLVII.

The 1 birth of John [the Baptist] brought the dumbness of Zacharias to an end. For he did not burden his father, when the voice issued forth from silence; but as when not believed it rendered him tongue-tied, so did the voice sounding out clearly set his father free, to whom he had both been announced and born. Now the voice and the burning light 2 were a precursor of the Word and the Light.

  1. Extracted from a ms. of Greek theology in the Palatine Library at Vienna. The succeeding fragment in the editions of Harvey, Migne, and Stieren, is omitted, as it is merely a transcript of book iii. ch. x. 4.  ↩

  2. John v. 35.  ↩

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