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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching

St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920

Chapter 29

And, when Moses had finished his course, it was said to him by God: Get thee up into the1 mountain, and die: for thou shalt not bring in my people into the land. So he died according to the2 word of the Lord; and Jesus the son of Nun succeeded him. He divided the Jordan and made the people to pass over into the land; and, when he had overthrown and destroyed the seven races that dwelt therein, he assigned to the people the temporal Jerusalem,3 wherein David was king, and Solomon his son, who builded the temple to the name of God, according to the likeness of the tabernacle which had been made by Moses after the pattern of the heavenly and spiritual things.

Notes

  1. Deut. xxxii. 49 f.
  2. Deut. xxxiv. 5
  3. Or “this present Jerusalem”: perhaps representing τὴν νῦν Ἱερουσαλήμ (Gal. iv. 25).

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