"Irenaeus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... evidence, which is relatively early and widespread (e.g. Muratorian Canon, Irenaeus, Tertullian,Clement and Origen), all points to Luke, the companion and fellow-worker of Paul (Philem. 24), who probably accompanied him as physician also (Col. iv. 14). It must be noted too that evidence for his authorship of the third Gospel counts also for Acts. This ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... apostles taught distinctly that Christ died for our sins. The early Christians did not attempt to go behind that fact, but by and by men began to attempt explanations. In the second century a man by the name of Irenaeus seized upon the word "ransom" in the sentence, "The Son of man is come to give his life a ransom for many," and found in that word "ransom" the key-word of the whole problem. The explanation of Irenaeus was taken up in the ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 (of 10) • Various
... was born about A.D. 60, probably of Christian parents. He bridges the little-known period between the age of his master, the apostle John, and that of his own disciple, Irenaeus. During the earlier half of the second century he was bishop of Smyrna. Ephesus had become the new hope of the faith, and in that city Polycarp had received his education and "lived in familiar intercourse with many who had seen Christ." He was also intimate with Papias and Ignatius. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
... five apostolic fathers contemporary with the apostles (viz., Clement of Rome, Barn[)a]bas, Hermas, Ignatius and Polycarp), and the nine following, who all lived in the first three centuries:—Justin, Theoph'ilus of Antioch, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian of Carthage, Or[)i]gen, Gregory "Thaumatur'gus," ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... accompanied by another nobleman—Irenaeus. We are not definitely informed of the object of their mission, but may fairly infer it from the date ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... sacerdos, Haec se carminibus promittit soluere mentes Sistere aquam fluvijs, & flumina vertere retro. Et Brachmanius Nonnus Dionysiacon, lib. 36. ouranothen katagontes epharmaxanto Selenen, astatheos phaethontes anestesanto pareien De Marco heretico & mago stupenda referunt Irenaeus contra hereses. lib. * cap. 9. & Epiphanius ...
— A Treatise of Witchcraft • Alexander Roberts
... no regular persecution of the Christians in his time; but at Lyons, where the townspeople were in great numbers Christians, the country-folk by some sudden impulse broke in and made a horrible massacre of them, in which the bishop, St. Irenaeus, was killed. So few country people were at this time converts, that Paganus, a peasant, came to be used as ...
— Young Folks' History of Rome • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... knees this morning before I came among you." Such an excess (if it were one) flowed from his charitable inclinations to be found among those peace-makers which, by following the example of that Man who is our peace, come to be called "the children of God." Very worthily might he be called an Irenaeus as being all for peace; and the commendation which Epiphanius gives unto the ancient of that name, did belong unto our Eliot; he was "a most blessed and a most holy man." He disliked all sorts of bravery; but yet with an ingenious note upon the ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various |
