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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920
Chapter 30
Hither were the prophets sent by God through the Holy Spirit; and they instructed the people and turned them to the God of their fathers, the Almighty; and they became heralds of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, declaring that from the posterity of David His flesh should blossom forth; that after the flesh He might be the son of David, who was the son of Abraham by a long succession; but according to the spirit Son of God, pre-existing1 with the Father, begotten before all the creation of the world, and at the end of the times appearing to all the world as man, the Word of God gathering2 up in Himself all things that are in heaven and that are on earth.
Notes
- Cf. c. 51.
- Eph. i. 10.