aima; pos oun kai ek nekron egeireto;
ei gar ho labon ten timen ton anthropon, to haima, apedoken, ouketi
epolesen. Ei de me apedoke, pos aneste Christos, ouketi oun to, Exousian
echo theinai kai exousian echo labein, histatai; ho goun diabolos
katechei to haima tou Christou anti tes times ton anthropon; polle
blasphemios anoia! Pheu ton kakon! Apethanen, aneste hos dunatos;
etheken ho elaben; aute poia prasis; tou prophetou legontos; Anasteto ho
Theos kai diaskorpisthetosan hoi echthroi autou, Opou anastasis, ekei
thanatos!] That is an argument as acute as it is true and victorious.]

[Footnote 615: See Iren. V. 2, 3, 16. 3, 17-4. In III. 16. 9 he says:
"Christus per passionem reconciliavit nos deo." It is moreover very
instructive to compare the way in which Irenaeus worked out the
recapitulation theory with the old proof from prophecy ("this happened
that the Scripture might be fulfilled"). Here we certainly have an
advance; but at bottom the recapitulation theory may also be conceived
as a modification of that proof.]

[Footnote 616: See, e.g., IV. 5. 4: [Greek: prothumos Abraam ton idion
monogene kai agapeton parachoresas thusian to Theo, hina kai ho Theos
eudokese huper tou spermatos autou pantos ton idion monogene kai
agapeton huion thusian paraschein eis lutrosin hemeteran].]

[Footnote 617: There are not a few passages where Irenaeus said that
Christ has annihilated sin, abolished Adam's disobedience, and
introduced righteousness through his obedience (III. 18. 6, 7: III. 20.
2: V. 16-21); but he only once tried to explain how that is to be
conceived (III. 18. 7), and then merely reproduced Paul's thoughts.]

[Footnote 618: Irenaeus has no hesitation in calling the Christian who
has received the Spirit of God the perfect, the spiritual one, and in
representing him, in contrast to the false Gnostic, as he who in truth
judges all men, Jews, heathen, Marcionites, and Valentinians, but is
himself judged by no one; see the great disquisition in IV. 33 and V. 9.
10. This true Gnostic, however, is only to be found where we meet with
right faith in God the Creator, sure conviction with regard to the
God-man Jesus Christ, true knowledge as regards the Holy Spirit and the
economy of salvation, the apostolic doctrine, the right Church system in
accordance with the episcopal succession, the intact Holy Scripture, and
its uncorrupted text and interpretation (IV. 33. 7, 8). To him the true
believer is the real Gnostic.]