Anf-03 iv.xi.l Pg 7
2 Kings ii. 11.
nor did they experience death: it was postponed, (and only postponed,) most certainly: they are reserved for the suffering of death, that by their blood they may extinguish Antichrist.1787 1787
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xii Pg 40
2 Kings ii. 11.
But what will excite my surprise still more is the case (next supposed by Marcion), that a God so good and gracious, and so averse to blows and cruelty, should have suborned the angel Satan—not his own either, but the Creator’s—“to buffet” the apostle,5778 5778
Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 12
Gen. v. 24; 2 Kings ii. 11.
—to what faith do these notable facts bear witness, if not to that which ought to inspire in us the belief that they are proofs and documents of our own future integrity and perfect resurrection? For, to borrow the apostle’s phrase, these were “figures of ourselves;”7738 7738
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.i Pg 60.1
Anf-02 ii.ii.iii Pg 4.1
αὐτοῦ to God, in opposition to the translation given by Abp. Wake and others.
neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian,16 16
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxiv Pg 5
Dan. vii. 10.
and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation is full of His glory.”143 143
Anf-01 ix.iii.viii Pg 11
Dan. vii. 10, agreeing neither with the Greek nor Hebrew text.
—then, according3022 3022 This clause is exceedingly obscure. Harvey remarks upon it as follows: “The reasoning of Irenæus seems to be this: According to the Gnostic theory, the Æons and angels of the Pleroma were homogeneous. They were also the archetypes of things created. But things created are heterogeneous: therefore either these Æons are heterogeneous, which is contrary to theory; or things created are homogeneous, which is contrary to fact.”
to them, the angels of the Pleroma will have as images the angels of the Creator, and the entire creation remains in the image of the Pleroma, but so that the thirty Æons no longer correspond to the manifold variety of the creation.
