Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death.”

– Irenaeus, Fragments

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“…the prophets used not to prophesy in word alone, but in visions also and in their mode of life and in the actions which they performed.”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“…the Spirit indeed working, and

the Son ministering,

while the Father was approving…”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“For he (antichrist) being endued with all the power of the devil . . . shall come . . .concentrating in himself satanic apostasy and setting aside idols to persuade that he himself is God, raising up himself as the only idol, having in himself the multifarious errors of the other idols.”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“And if any one. . .compel thee [to go ] a mile go with him twain so that thou mayest not follow him as a slave but may as a free man go before him…”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote
“After their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter
did also hand down to us in writing what has been preached by Peter.”
– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“But when the spirit here blended with the soul is united to [God’s] handiwork, the man is rendered spiritual and perfect because of the outpouring of the Spirit…

but if the Spirit is wanting in the soul, he…being left carnal, shall be an imperfect being…”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“…The Father is the invisible of the Son

but the Son the visible of the Father.”

– Irenaeus AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote

Ante-Nicene Quote

“It is not possible to name the number of the gifts which the Church [scattered] throughout the whole world has received from God, in the name of Jesus Christ…”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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Ante-Nicene Quote – Irenaeus

Ante-Nicene Quote

“For as among men, those sons who disobey their fathers, being disinherited, are still their sons in course of nature, but by law are disinherited . . . so in the same way is it with God,–those who do not obey Him being disinherited by Him, have ceased to be Him sons.”

– Irenaeus, AGAINST HERESIES

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