Against Heresies — Book 4, Chapter 32

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Harvey remarks here, that this can hardly be the same presbyter mentioned before, “who was only a hearer of those who had heard the apostles. Irenæus may here mean the venerable martyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna.”

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“Quassum et futile.” The text varies much in the mss.

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Gen. i. 3.

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John i. 3.

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Eph. iv. 5, 6.

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Eph. iv. 16; Col. ii. 19.

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“Constabit ei.”

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We here read “secundum quos” with Massuet, instead of usual “secundum quod.”

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“Concurvans,” corresponding to συγκάμπτων, which, says Harvey, “would be expressive of those who were brought under the law, as the neck of the steer is bent to the yoke.”

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The Latin is, “per proprium visum.”

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[If this and the former chapter seem to us superfluous, we must reflect that such testimony, from the beginning, has established the unity of Holy Scripture, and preserved to us—the Bible.]

Book 4 · Chapter 32

That one God was the author of both Testaments, is confirmed by the authority of a presbyter who had been taught by the apostles.

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