Gebruiker:Jan Van Gelder/Ireneüs van Lyon

Gebruiker:Jan Van Gelder/Adversus Haereses

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Engelse tekst Eusebius' Kerkgeschiedenis (New Advent)

• Chapter 4: Aanbeveiling door Pothinus aan Eleutherus
• Ch. 5.8: Opvolging van Pothinus door Ir.
• Chapter 6: Lijst van de Bisschoppen van Rome
• Ch. 8: Ireneaus over de Heilige Geschriften
• Chapter 20: Over de werken van Irenaeus
• Chapter 23-24-25: Dispuut over de Paasdatum
• Ch. 26: Andere werken van Irenaeus

Overzicht werken Ireneüs

• Adversus Haereses
• Demonstratio
• Traktaat De Ogdoade
• "een boekrol met talrijke uiteenzettingen, waarin hij de brief aan de Hebreeën en de zogenaamde Wijsheid van Salomo vermeldtvarious Dissertations, in which he mentions the Epistle to the Hebrews and the so-called Wisdom of Solomon (Eusebius, Kerkgeschiedenis, V.20.1)

• Brieven aan Blastus, Over het schisma, aan Florinus, Over de Monarchie(Eusebius, Kerkgeschiedenis, V.26)

V.20.1. Irenæus wrote several letters against those who were disturbing the sound ordinance of the Church at Rome. One of them was to Blastus On Schism; another to Florinus On Monarchy, or That God is not the Author of Evil. For Florinus seemed to be defending this opinion. And because he was being drawn away by the error of Valentinus, Irenæus wrote his work On the Ogdoad, in which he shows that he himself had been acquainted with the first successors of the apostles. [...]

4. In the letter to Florinus, of which we have spoken, Irenæus mentions again his intimacy with Polycarp, saying:

"These doctrines, O Florinus, to speak mildly, are not of sound judgment. These doctrines disagree with the Church, and drive into the greatest impiety those who accept them. These doctrines, not even the heretics outside of the Church, have ever dared to publish. These doctrines, the presbyters who were before us, and who were companions of the apostles, did not deliver to you.

5. "For when I was a boy, I saw you in lower Asia with Polycarp, moving in splendor in the royal court, and endeavoring to gain his approbation.

6. I remember the events of that time more clearly than those of recent years. For what boys learn, growing with their mind, becomes joined with it; so that I am able to describe the very place in which the blessed Polycarp sat as he discoursed, and his goings out and his comings in, and the manner of his life, and his physical appearance, and his discourses to the people, and the accounts which he gave of his intercourse with John and with the others who had seen the Lord. And as he remembered their words, and what he heard from them concerning the Lord, and concerning his miracles and his teaching, having received them from eyewitnesses of the 'Word of life,' 1 John 1:1 Polycarp related all things in harmony with the Scriptures.

7. These things being told me by the mercy of God, I listened to them attentively, noting them down, not on paper, but in my heart. And continually, through God's grace, I recall them faithfully. And I am able to bear witness before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard any such thing, he would have cried out, and stopped his ears, and as was his custom, would have exclaimed, O good God, unto what times have you spared me that I should endure these things? And he would have fled from the place where, sitting or standing, he had heard such words.

8. And this can be shown plainly from the letters which he sent, either to the neighboring churches for their confirmation, or to some of the brethren, admonishing and exhorting them." Thus far Irenæus.

V.26. The Elegant Works of Irenæus which have come down to us. Besides the works and letters of Irenæus which we have mentioned, a certain book of his On Knowledge, written against the Greeks, very concise and remarkably forcible, is extant; and another, which he dedicated to a brother Marcian, In Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching; and a volume containing various Dissertations, in which he mentions the Epistle to the Hebrews and the so-called Wisdom of Solomon, making quotations from them. These are the works of Irenæus which have come to our knowledge.

Commodus having ended his reign after thirteen years, Severus became emperor in less than six months after his death, Pertinax having reigned during the intervening time.