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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching

St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920

Chapter 73

And again David says thus concerning the death and resurrection of Christ: I laid me down1 and slept: I awaked, for the Lord received me.2 David said not this of himself, for he was not raised after death: but the Spirit of Christ, who (spake) also in other prophets concerning Him, says here by David: I laid me down and slept: I awaked, for the Lord received me. By sleep he means death; for He arose again.

Notes

  1. Ps. iii. 5.
  2. Cf. IV, xlviii. 2; lv. 4.

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