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“Irenaeus on The Rule of Faith - Latin and Greek Text with English translation”
The Faith of the Church the same throughout the world. From Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies), 1. 2 - 3.
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TRANSLATIONS Irenaeus of Lyons (The Early Church Fathers)
---------------- St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies Book 1(Ancient Christian Writers) (v. 1)
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies (Book 2) (Ancient Christian Writers)
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies (Book 3) (Ancient Christian Writers)
---------------- On the Apostolic Preaching
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The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole
world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their
disciples this faith: [She believes] in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the
Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and
the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection
from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ
Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] manifestation from heaven in the glory of the
Father “to gather all things in one,” and to raise up anew all flesh of the
whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour,
and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, “every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that
every tongue should confess” to Him, and that He should execute just judgment
towards all; that He may send “spiritual wickednesses,” and the angels who
transgressed and became apostates, together with the ungodly, and unrighteous,
and wicked, and profane among men, into everlasting fire; but may, in the
exercise of His grace, confer immortality on the righteous, and holy, and those
who have kept His commandments, and have persevered in His love, some from the
beginning [of their Christian course], and others from [the date of] their
repentance, and may surround them with everlasting glory. |
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