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Against Heresies
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And the angel of the Lord, he says, appeared to the shepherds, proclaiming joy to them: "For 1 there is born in the house of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Then [appeared] a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory in the highest to God, and on earth peace, to men of good will." 2 The falsely-called Gnostics say that these angels came from the Ogdoad, and made manifest the descent of the superior Christ. But they are again in error, when saying that the Christ and Saviour from above was not born, but that also, after the baptism of the dispensational Jesus, he, [the Christ of the Pleroma,] descended upon him as a dove. Therefore, according to these men, the angels of the Ogdoad lied, when they said, "For unto you is born this day a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David." For neither was Christ nor the Saviour born at that time, by their account; but it was he, the dispensational Jesus, who is of the framer of the world, the [Demiurge], and upon whom, after his baptism, that is, after [the lapse of] thirty years, they maintain the Saviour from above descended. But why did [the angels] add, "in the city of David," if they did not proclaim the glad tidings of the fulfilment of God's promise made to David, that from the fruit of his body there should be an eternal King? For the Framer [Demiurge] of the entire universe made promise to David, as David himself declares: "My help is from God, who made heaven and earth;" 3 and again: "In His hand are the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are His. For the sea is His, and He did Himself make it; and His hands founded the dry land. Come ye, let us worship and fall down before Him, and weep in the presence of the Lord who made us; for He is the Lord our God." 4 The Holy Spirit evidently thus declares by David to those hearing him, that there shall be those who despise Him who formed us, and who is God alone. Wherefore he also uttered the foregoing words, meaning to say: See that ye do not err; besides or above Him there is no other God, to whom ye should rather stretch out [your hands], thus rendering us pious and grateful towards Him who made, established, and [still] nourishes us. What, then, shall happen to those who have been the authors of so much blasphemy against their Creator? This identical truth was also what the angels [proclaimed]. For when they exclaim, "Glory to God in the highest, and in earth peace," they have glorified with these words Him who is the Creator of the highest, that is, of super-celestial things, and the Founder of everything on earth: who has sent to His own handiwork, that is, to men, the blessing of His salvation from heaven. Wherefore he adds: "The shepherds returned, glorifying God for all which they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them." 5 For the Israelitish shepherds did not glorify another god, but Him who had been announced by the law and the prophets, the Maker of all things, whom also the angels glorified. But if the angels who were from the Ogdoad were accustomed to glorify any other, different from Him whom the shepherds [adored], these angels from the Ogdoad brought to them error and not truth.
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Luke ii. 11, etc. ↩
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Thus found also in the Vulgate. Harvey supposes that the original of Irenaeus read according to our textus receptus, and that the Vulgate rendering was adopted in this passage by the transcribers of the Latin version of our author. [No doubt a just remark.] There can be no doubt, however, that the reading eudokias is supported by many and weighty ancient authorities. [But on this point see the facts as given by Burgon, in his refutation of the rendering adopted by late revisers, Revision Revised, p. 41. London, Murray, 1883.] ↩
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Ps. cxxiv. 8. ↩
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Ps. xcv. 4. ↩
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Luke ii. 20. ↩
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Gegen die Häresien (BKV)
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Als aber Zacharias weissagte, sprach' er: „Gepriesen sei der Herr, der Gott Israels, denn er hat heimgesucht und Erlösung bereitet seinem Volke. Und er hat aufgerichtet ein Hörn des Heils für uns im Hause Davids, seines Knechtes, wie er gesprochen hat durch den Mund seiner heiligen Propheten, die von Ewigkeit sind, Errettung von unsern Feinden und aus der Hand aller, die uns haßten, um Barmherzigkeit zu tun mit unsern Vätern und sich zu erinnern seines heiligen Bundes. Denn er schwur dem Abraham, unserm Vater, daß er uns gebe, aus der Hand der Feinde befreit, ihm furchtlos zu dienen in Heiligkeit und Gerechtigkeit vor seinem Angesichte alle unsere Tage“1 . Alsdann spricht er zu Johannes: „Und du, Knabe, wirst Prophet des Allerhöchsten genannt werden, denn du wirst vorangehen vor dem Angesichte des Herrn, ihm seine Wege zu bereiten, um das Verständnis des Heiles seinem Volke zu geben, zur Nachlassung ihrer Sünden“2 . Denn gerade die Kenntnis des Heiles fehlte ihnen, d. h., des Sohnes Gottes, die ihnen Johannes vermittelte, indem er sprach: „Siehe, das Lamm Gottes, welches hinwegnimmt die Sünde der Welt“3 . Dieser war es, von dem ich sagte: „Nach mir kommt der Mann, der vor mir geworden ist, da er früher als ich war“4 . „Und wir alle haben von seiner Fülle empfangen“5 . Das also ist die Erkenntnis des Heils. Und keinen anderen Gott gibt es, noch einen, anderen Vater, oder Bythos, oder Pleroma von dreißig Äonen, noch Mutter einer Achtheit; sondern die Kenntnis des Heils war die Kenntnis des Sohnes Gottes, der auch Heil, Heiland und Hilfe ist und mit Recht genannt wird. Heil wird er genannt in der Stelle: „Auf Dein Heil habe ich gehofft, o Herr“6 ; Heiland wiederum, wenn es S. 234heißt: „Siehe, mein Gott, mein Heiland, auf ihn werde ich bauen“7 ; Hilfe aber in der Stelle: „Bekannt machte der Herr seine Hilfe vor den Heiden“8 . Heiland ist er als Sohn und Wort Gottes, Hilfe als Geist, „denn der Geist unseres Angesichtes“, heißt es, „ist Christus der Herr“9 , Heil aber als Fleisch, denn „das Wort ist Fleisch geworden und hat unter uns gewohnt“10 . Dieses Heiles Kenntnis vermittelt Johannes denen, die Buße taten und an das Lamm Gottes glaubten, welches hinwegnimmt die Sünde der Welt.
