{"attribution":"Irenaeus of Lyons; The Writings of Irenaeus, Volume II, Ante-Nicene Christian Library IX; translated by Alexander Roberts and W. H. Rambaut; T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1869. Existing transcription supplied by Wikisource contributors.","author":"Irenaeus of Lyons","date_end":188,"date_evidence_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Christian_Library/Introductory_Notice_to_Iren%C3%A6us","date_label":"c. 182–188 AD (historical editorial dating)","date_start":182,"edition_permalink":"https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Ante-Nicene_Christian_Library/Against_Heresies_(Iren%C3%A6us)/Book_5&oldid=13533734","edition_year":1869,"id":"irenaeus-ah5-ancl1869-reviewed-57","license":"Public domain historical English translation; Wikisource transcription","license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","provenance_note":"Physical title transcribed MDCCCLXIX (1869). The volume credits Roberts and W. H. Rambaut jointly; no paragraph-level translator allocation is asserted. Provider biographies identify Alexander Roberts (1826–1901) and William Hautenville Rambaut (1822–1893). Provider edition and translator pages declare public-domain status; its reuse policy states that public-domain transcription creates no new copyright. This is a separately acquired ANCL edition, not CCEL permission. Scan index: Ante-Nicene Christian Library Vol 9.djvu, source pages 76–179. Transcription is not fully proofread; original spelling, transcription defects and ancient textual variants are retained without silent correction. Source-note reference errors, which may be printing or transcription defects, are documented and canonical links follow quoted words. The original Greek is largely lost; this edition also depends on the ancient Latin version. Some passages expressly report teaching of presbyters or elders; they remain within Irenaeus's work and are not newly attributed to an individual. 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English wording unchanged.","translator":"Alexander Roberts and W. H. Rambaut (credited jointly on the volume title)","verification":{"method":"inspected source paragraph and verse context; SHA-256 locked","paragraph_indices":[57],"raw_source":"raw/fathers/irenaeus-against-heresies-book5-ancl1869.html","reference_basis":"EPH 4:6 (exposition): He explicitly assigns the verse's above/through/in clauses to the Father, Word and Spirit and uses the formula to argue one divine Creator of all things. This is direct clause-by-clause interpretation. The author applies the triadic reading; this review records his interpretation without changing it to a modern doctrinal reading. The historical in-us wording is retained. JHN 7:38 (exposition): The distinctive living-water-and-believing image is specifically identified with the Spirit. This interprets the living-water image of verse 38 in the sense made explicit in verse 39. The source does not quote the rivers or belly clause. This is an unquoted explanation of the water image, not a full-verse quotation or a new explanation of John 7:37. JHN 7:39 (exposition): The author's explicit identification of the water with the Spirit given to believers agrees with the verse's explanatory meaning and not merely with note 157. The chronological not-yet-glorified clause is not interpreted. 1CO 11:3 (citation): The specific God-as-head-of-Christ relationship corresponds to the closing clause of 1 Corinthians 11:3 and is used as a supporting assertion. The paragraph does not separately explain that verse's ordered head relationships. Unmarked allusion. The gender/man/woman clauses of 1 Corinthians 11:3 are neither quoted nor explained. JHN 1:1 (exposition): He quotes the beginning/with-God/Word-is-God sentence and applies it to the relationship of the one Father and the one Word in his Creator argument. JHN 1:2 (citation): This full distinct verse is actually quoted in the sequence; its repetition of the beginning/with-God statement is not separately interpreted. The accepted sequence is only the actually quoted verses 1-3, not all of the prologue because note 159 says 'etc.'. JHN 1:3 (exposition): The universal creation statement is expressly applied against creation by angels or a defective ignorant maker: all created things belong to the Word acting according to the Father's will. Source 'by Him' and canonical 'through him' renderings remain distinct. JHN 1:10 (exposition): He interprets the Word's presence and creation of this world as proof that this actual world is his own and was made according to the Father's will, against a foreign maker. JHN 1:11 (exposition): The historical distinction between his own things and own people is actually quoted and applied to the Word coming to his own creation, rather than another maker's world. 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