Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- Part I DIVINE INTELLECT
- Part II ECONOMY
- Part III RECAPITULATION
- Part IV PARTICIPATION
- Part V CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- Select bibliography
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index
Part III - RECAPITULATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Irenaeus: argument and imagery
- Part I DIVINE INTELLECT
- Part II ECONOMY
- Part III RECAPITULATION
- Part IV PARTICIPATION
- Part V CONCLUSION
- Appendix: Gnosticism
- Select bibliography
- Citations from Irenaeus
- Citations from the bible
- Index of classical authors
- Index of patristic authors
- General index
Summary
Christ is the last syllable which, ‘being part of the whole metrical fabric, perfects the form and metrical beauty of the whole’.
Augustine, On true religion, 22, 42And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are infolded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
T. S. Eliot, Little GiddingWe think that Paradise and Calvarie,
Christs Crosse, and Adams tree, stood in one place;
Looke Lord and finde both Adams met in me;
As the first Adams sweat surrounds my face,
May the last Adams blood my soule embrace.
John Donne, ‘Hymn to God my God, in my Sicknesse’But indeed our lord is the one true master. He, the son of God is truly good; he, the word of God became son of man, and endured suffering for us. For he has fought and conquered: on one hand, as man he fought for the fathers and redeemed their disobedience by his obedience, on the other hand, he has bound the strong man, set free the weak and poured out salvation on the work of his hands, destroying sin. For the lord is patient and merciful and loves the human race.
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- Irenaeus of Lyons , pp. 95 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001