The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1; The Apostolic Fathers. Justin Martyr. Irenaeus (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...the world, as animal men were. 3 Their spiritual substance was received from Achamoth; their animal souls were created by the Demiurge. These are now separated; the spirit enters the Pleroma, while the soul remains in heaven. Viz., Achamoth. A Syriac fragment here reads, "He spake by the prophets through him Thus," says Harvey, "we may trace back to the Gnostic period the Apollinarian error, closely allied to the Docetic, that the body of Christ was not derived from the blessed Virgin, but that it was of heavenly substance, and was only brought forth into the world through her instrumentality." 6 By thus extending himself through Stauros, who bounded the Pleroma, the Christ above became the type of the Christ below, who was extended upon the cross. 7 Billius, following the old Latin version, reads, "They interpret many things, spoken by the prophets, of this seed. mother also, they say, spake much about things above, and that both through him and through the souls which were formed by him. Then, again, they divide the prophecies into different classes), maintaining that one portion was uttered by the mother, a second by her seed, and a third by the Demiurge. In like manner, they hold that Jesus uttered some things under the influence of the Saviour, others under that of the mother, and others still under that of the Demiurge, as we shall show further on in our work. 4. The Demiurge, while ignorant of those things which were higher than himself, was indeed excited by the announcements made through the prophets), but treated them with contempt, attributing them sometimes to one cause and sometimes to another; either to the prophetic spirit (which itself possesses the premier of selfexcitement), or to mere unassisted) man, or that it w...