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Irenæus

The Demonstration Of The Apostolic Preaching

Irenæus

Irenaeus's second-century work demonstrating the content and method of apostolic preaching, preserving early church teaching and theology as handed down from the apostles.

99 Chapters

Table of Contents

1 PREFACE 2 I THE DOCUMENT AND ITS VALUE 3 II THE DEBT OF IRENÆUS TO JUSTIN MARTYR 4 III THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN JUSTIN AND IRENÆUS 5 Chapter 1 The Holy Spirit in relation to Prophecy. 6 Chapter 2 The Holy Spirit in relation to the Father and the Son. 7 Chapter 3 The Holy Spirit and the Incarnation of the Word. 8 Chapter 1 The Holy Spirit in relation to Prophecy. 9 Chapter 2 The Holy Spirit in relation to the Father and the Son. 10 Chapter 3 The Holy Spirit and the Incarnation of the Word. 11 Chapter 1 Knowing, my beloved Marcianus, your desire to walk in godliness 12 Chapter 3 Now, that we may not suffer ought of this kind 13 Chapter 5 Thus then there is shown forth One God, the Father 14 Chapter 8 And by the Spirit the Father is called Most High and Almighty and Lord of 15 Chapter 9 Now this world is encompassed by seven heavens, in which dwell powers and angels and 16 Chapter 10 Now this God is glorified by His Word who is His Son continually 17 Chapter 11 But man He formed with His own hands, taking from the earth that which was 18 Chapter 13 And, whilst man dwelt in Paradise, God brought before him all living things and commanded 19 Chapter 14 And Adam and Eve -- for that is the name of the woman -- 20 Chapter 15 But, lest man should conceive thoughts too high, and be exalted and uplifted 21 Chapter 16 This commandment the man kept not, but was disobedient to God 22 Chapter 17 And when they were put out of Paradise, Adam and his wife. 23 Chapter 18 And for a very long while wickedness extended and spread 24 Chapter 19 Until judgment came upon the world from God by means of a flood 25 Chapter 20 Now of these one fell under a curse, and the two others inherited a blessing 26 Chapter 22 Now after the Flood God made a covenant with all the world 27 Chapter 23 And they arose and came from the land of the east 28 Chapter 24 In process of tithe, that is to say, in the tenth generation after the Flood 29 Chapter 26 And in the wilderness Moses received the Law from God 30 Chapter 27 And when they were near to the land, which God had promised to Abraham and 31 Chapter 28 When the forty years were fulfilled, the people drew near to the Jordan 32 Chapter 29 And, when Moses had finished his course, it was said to him by God 33 Chapter 32 Whence then is the substance of the first formed man? From the Will and the 34 Chapter 33 And just as through a disobedient virgin man was stricken down and fell into death 35 Chapter 34 And the trespass which came by the tree was undone by the tree of obedience 36 Chapter 35 Moreover He fulfilled the promise made to Abraham, which God had promised him 37 Chapter 36 And He fulfilled the promise to David; for to him God had promised that of 38 Chapter 37 Thus then He gloriously achieved our redemption, and fulfilled the promise of the fathers 39 Chapter 38 But God the Father was very merciful: He sent His creative Word 40 Chapter 40 Thus then the Word of God 41 Chapter 41 And His forerunner was John the Baptist, who prepared and made ready the people beforehand 42 Chapter 42 For such is the state of those who have believed 43 Chapter 43 So then we must believe God in all things 44 Chapter 44 And again Moses tells how the Son of God drew near to hold converse with 45 Chapter 45 And Jacob, when he went into Mesopotamia, saw Him in a dream 46 Chapter 46 He it is who spake with Moses in the bush 47 Chapter 47 So then the Father is Lord and the Son is Lord 48 Chapter 48 And again David says: 49 Chapter 49 And again Isaiah the prophet says: 50 Chapter 50 So then right fitly Christ says through David that He converses with the Father 51 Chapter 51 Here, first of all, is seen that the Son of God pre-existed 52 Chapter 52 That Christ, then, being Son of God before all the world 53 Chapter 53 And that this Christ, who was with the Father 54 Chapter 54 For this cause then is He Saviour. 55 Chapter 55 He calls Him Wonderful Counselor, meaning of the Father 56 Chapter 56 And again Isaiah says: 57 Chapter 57 That the Son of God should be born, and in what way He was to 58 Chapter 58 And again Moses says: There shall rise a star out of Jacob 59 Chapter 59 Moreover Isaiah himself yet further says. 60 Chapter 60 Now, Not according to opinion shall he judge, and not according to speech shall he 61 Chapter 61 Now as to the union and concord and peace of the animals of different kinds 62 Chapter 62 Wherefore again the prophet says: 63 Chapter 63 And again the prophet Micah speaks of the place where Christ should be born 64 Chapter 64 And again David says that of his race Christ. 65 Chapter 65 And the manner of His entry into Jerusalem, which was the capital of Judæa 66 Chapter 66 So then, that the Son of God should be born 67 Chapter 67 At this point let us speak of His healings. 68 Chapter 68 And that He shall be despised and tormented and in the end put to death 69 Chapter 69 Now what follows in Isaiah is this: 70 Chapter 70 Then he says: 71 Chapter 71 And in another place Jeremiah says: 72 Chapter 72 And again the same prophet says thus concerning the sufferings of Christ 73 Chapter 73 And again David says thus concerning the death and resurrection of Christ 74 Chapter 74 And again David says thus concerning the sufferings of Christ 75 Chapter 76 And Zechariah says thus: 76 Chapter 77 Again He says in the Twelve Prophets, 77 Chapter 78 And in Jeremiah He thus declares His death and descent into hell 78 Chapter 80 And again David says: 79 Chapter 82 And at His crucifixion, when He asked a drink 80 Chapter 83 And that, being raised from the dead, He was to ascend into heaven 81 Chapter 84 And the same says David again: 82 Chapter 85 And being raised from the dead and exalted at the Father's right hand 83 Chapter 86 If then the prophets prophesied that the Son of God was to appear upon the 84 Chapter 88 And that after His ascension He was to be exalted above all 85 Chapter 89 That He would not send back the redeemed to the legislation of Moses -- for 86 Chapter 90 Therefore, when you urge against us that we turn away from the religion 87 Chapter 91 And that these promises the calling from among the Gentiles should inherit 88 Chapter 92 And that He should become visible amongst us -- for the Son of God became 89 Chapter 93 And that this race was to become an holy people was declared in the Twelve 90 Chapter 94 So then by the new calling a change of hearts in the Gentiles came to 91 Chapter 95 Moreover Moses in Deuteronomy says that the Gentiles should be the head 92 Chapter 97 By the invocation of the name of Jesus Christ 93 Chapter 99 So that none should imagine God the Father to be other than our Creator 94 Chapter 100 So then in respect of the three points of our seal error has strayed widely 95 ADDITIONAL NOTE. A new installment has now appeared of the Patrologia Orientalis XII. 96 INDEX LOCORUM 97 GENERAL INDEX 98 PUBLICATIONS 99 **Indexes**

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