Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV that is, in this world (for "the field is the world"[353] those] of the devil, for whom eternal fire is prepared; and as, again, He declares with regard to the tares, "The tares are the children of the wicked one,"[639] For this reason, therefore, He has termed those "angels of the devil," and "children of the wicked one,"[651] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But "the field is the world."[289]