The Sacred Writings of St. Irenaeus by Saint Irenaeus

Author:Saint Irenaeus [Unbekannt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9783849621568
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

8. All therefore speak falsely who disallow his (Adam's) salvation, shutting themselves out from life for ever, in that they do not believe that the sheep which had perished has been found. 465 For if it has not been found, the whole human race is still held in a state of perdition. False, therefore, is that, man who first started this idea, or rather, this ignorance and blindness-Tatian. 466 As I have already indicated, this man entangled himself with all the heretics. 467 This dogma, however, has been invented by himself, in order that, by introducing something new, independently of the rest, and by speaking vanity. he might acquire for himself hearers void of faith, affecting to be esteemed a teacher, and endeavouring from time to time to employ sayings of this kind often [made use of] by Paul: "In Adam we all die; " 468 ignorant, however, that "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." 469 Since this, then, has been clearly shown, let all his disciples be put to shame, and let them wrangle 470 about Adam, as if some great gain were to accrue to them if he be not saved; when they profit nothing more [by that], even as the serpent also did not profit when persuading man [to sin], except to this effect, that he proved him a transgressor, obtaining man as the first-fruits of his own apostasy. 471 But he did not know God's power. 472 Thus also do those who disallow Adam's salvation gain nothing, except this, that they render themselves heretics and apostates from the truth, and show themselves patrons of the serpent and of death.

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