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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920
Chapter 88
And that after His ascension He was to be exalted above all, and that there shall be none to be compared and equalled unto Him, Isaiah says thus:1 Who is he that entereth into judgment2 (with me)? Let him stand up against (me). And who is he who is justified? Let him draw near to the Lords Son. Woe unto you, for ye shall grow old as a garment, and the moth shall devour you. And all flesh shall be humbled and abased, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in the highest. And that in the end by His name they should be saved who served God, Isaiah says: And on those who serve me3 a new name shall be called, which shall be blessed upon the earth: and they shall bless the true God. And that this blessing He Himself should bring about, and Himself should redeem us by His own blood, Isaiah declared, saying: No mediator,4 no angel, but the Lord himself saved them; because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them.5
Notes
- Almost the same comment is found in IV, lv. 4, where the same combination of texts is made: “Quisquis judicatur, ex adverso adstet; et quisquis justificatur, appropinquet puero Dei (Arm. Domini); et vae vobis . . . in altissimis.”
- Isa. l. 8 f.; ii. 17.
- Isa. lxv. 15 f.
- Isa. lxiii. 9.
- Cf. c. 94. In III, xxii. 1 we have; “Neque senior (πρέσβυς LXX) neque angelus.”