Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxvii Pg 19 This is Massuet’s conjectural emendation of the text, viz., archetypum for arcætypum. Grabe would insertper before arcæ, and he thinks the passage to have a reference to 1 Pet. iii. 20
. Irenæus, in common with the other ancient Fathers, believed that the fallen angels were the “sons of God” who commingled with “the daughters of men,” and thus produced a race of spurious men. [Gen. vi. 1, 2, 3, and Josephus.]
there is great propriety in his meaning. It is right that that face which was a snare to them should wear some mark of a humble guise and obscured beauty. If, however, the angels of the rival god are referred to, what fear is there for them? for not even Marcion’s disciples, (to say nothing of his angels,) have any desire for women. We have often shown before now, that the apostle classes heresies as evil5536
