Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III It was necessary, therefore, that the Lord, coming to the lost sheep, and making recapitulation of so comprehensive a dispensation, and seeking after His own handiwork, should save that very man who had been created after His image and likeness, that is, Adam, filling up the times of His condemnation, which had been incurred through disobedience,-[times] "which the Father had placed in His own power."[448] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quanquam haec quoque dicuntur allegorice. Propterea nec "tempora" prae finiit, "quge Pater posuit in sua potestate,"[64] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also in the Acts of the Apostles: "No one can know the times or the seasons which the Father has placed in His own power."[754] Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topics on the Faith As it is not for us to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in His own power,[39]