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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching

St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920

Chapter 85

And being raised from the dead and exalted at the Father’s right hand, He awaits the time appointed by the Father for the judgment, when all enemies shall be put under Him. Now the enemies are all those who were found in apostasy, angels and archangels and powers and thrones, who despised the truth. And the prophet David himself says thus: The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit¹ on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. And that He ascended thither, whence He had come down, David says: From the end² of heaven is his going forth, and his cessation even at the end of heaven. Then he signifies his judgment: And there is none that shall be hid from his heat.³

Notes

Ps. cx. 1.
Ps. xix. 6.
The same interpretation in IV, lv. 4: “quoniam illuc assumptus est unde et descendit, et non est qui justum judicium ejus effugiat.”