Irenaeus — Commentary on Scripture

Romans 8:3

For he who holds, without pride and boasting, the true glory regarding created things and the Creator, who is the Almighty God of all, and who has granted existence to all; such an one, continuing in His love and subjection, and giving of thanks, shall also receive from Him the greater glory of promotion, looking forward to the time when he shall become like Him who died for him, for He, too, "was made in the likeness of sinful flesh," to condemn sin, and to cast it, as now a condemned thing, away beyond the flesh, but that He might call man forth into His own likeness, assigning him as His own imitator to God, and imposing on him His Father's law, in order that he may see God, and granting him power to receive the Father.

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 3

Romans 8:6

Animal men, again, are instructed in animal things; such men, namely, as are established by their works, and by a mere faith, while they have not perfect knowledge. We of the Church, they say, are these persons.

Against Heresies Book I

Romans 8:8

The apostle does not reject the substance of flesh but shows that the Spirit must be infused into it.

AGAINST HERESIES 5.10.2

Romans 8:9

"For ye "he declares, "are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.".
And again he declares, "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you."

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:10

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit dwelling in you."

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:11

For, as himself foreseeing, through the Spirit, the subdivisions of evil teachers .
And again to the Romans he says, "But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies."

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:13

And again he says, in the Epistle to the Romans, "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die."

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:13

Paul does not prevent them from living their lives in the flesh, for he was himself in the flesh when he wrote to them, but he cuts away the lusts of the flesh which bring death upon a man.

AGAINST HERESIES 5.10.2

Romans 8:15

Neither do we receive another Holy Spirit, besides Him who is with us, and who cries, "Abba, Father; ".
For those to whom he was writing were not without flesh, but they were those who had received the Spirit of God, "by which we cry, Abba, Father."

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:19

God is rich in all things, and everything is his. It is therefore fitting that the creation itself, having been restored to its primeval condition, should without restraint be under the dominion of the righteous.

AGAINST HERESIES 5.32.1

Romans 8:19

For the creature has been subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope; since the creature itself shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God."

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:21

The apostle, too, has confessed that the creation shall be free from the bondage of corruption,

Against Heresies Book V

Romans 8:34

He declares in the plainest manner, that the same Being who was laid hold of, and underwent suffering, and shed His blood for us, was both Christ and the Son of God, who did also rise again, and was taken up into heaven, as he himself

Against Heresies Book III

Romans 8:36

Here the expression “all the day long” means all the time in which we suffer persecution and are killed as sheep.

AGAINST HERESIES 2.22.2

Romans 8:36

This present time, in which men are called and saved by the Lord, is properly understood to be denoted by "the acceptable year of the Lord;" and there follows on this "the day of retribution," that is, the judgment. And the time thus referred to is not called "a year" only, but is also named "a day" both by the prophet and by Paul, of whom the apostle, calling to mind the Scripture, says in the Epistle addressed to the Romans, "As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." But here the expression "all the day long" is put for all this time during which we suffer persecution, and are killed as sheep. As then this day does not signify one which consists of twelve hours, but the whole time during which believers in Christ suffer and are put to death for His sake, so also the year there mentioned does not denote one which consists of twelve months, but the whole time of faith during which men hear and believe the preaching of the Gospel.

Against Heresies Book 2.22.2

Romans 9:5

And again, writing to the Romans about Israel, he says: "Whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed for ever."

Against Heresies Book III

Romans 9:10

The history of Isaac, too, is not without a symbolical character. For in the Epistle to the Romans, the apostle declares: "Moreover, when Rebecca had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac," she received answer from the Word, "that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth, it was said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people are in thy body; and the one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger." From which it is evident, that not only were there prophecies of the patriarchs, but also that the children brought forth by Rebecca were a prediction of the two nations; and that the one should be indeed the greater, but the other the less; that the one also should be under bondage, but the other free; but that both should be of one and the same Father.

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 4

Romans 9:13

Our God, one and the same, is also their God, who knows hidden things, who knoweth all things before they can come to pass; and for this reason has He said, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

Against Heresies Book IV

Romans 9:25

And proclaim in what sense .
and Him who, by His Son Christ Jesus, has called us to the knowledge of Himself, from the worship of stones, so that those who were not a people were made a people, and she beloved who was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said, This is not a people, there shall they be called the children of the living God."

Against Heresies Book III

Romans 10:3

For this is what Paul says concerning these men: "For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."

Against Heresies Book IV