# Libros quinque adversus haereses 1-11

Irenaeus, Libros quinque adversus haereses, Κεφ. κη΄.. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/irenaeus/libros-quinque-adversus-haereses/1-11

1. ΟΙ δὲ Σηθιανοὶ οὓς Ὀφιανοὺς ἢ Ὀφίτας τίνες ὀνομάζουσιν, Ἄνθρωπον καλοῦσι τὸν τῶν ἁπάντων Θεὸν, φῶς αὐτὸν πάλιν ἐπονομάζοντες, καὶ μακάριον καὶ ἄφθαρτον ἀποκαλοῦντες, καὶ ἐν Βυθῷ τὴν οἴκησιν ἔχειν διαβεβαιούμενοι. Τὴν δὲ 1 Ἔννοιαν αὐτοῦ Υἱὸν Ἀνθρώπου καλοῦσι, καὶ δεύτερον Ἄνθρωπον. Μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ὑπάρχειν τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· κάτω δὲ τούτων τέσσαρα στοιχεῖα, ὕδωρ, σκότος, ἄβυσσον, χάος· θῆλυ δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα καλοῦσι, καὶ τοῖς στοιχείοις ἐπιφέρεσθαι. Ἐρασθῆναι δέ φασι τὸν πρῶτον Ἄνθρωπον, καὶ τὸν δεύτερον, τῆς ὥρας τοῦ Πνεύματος καὶ φῶς ὁ καλοῦσι Χριστόν μὴ δυνηθεῖσαν δὲ βαστάσαι τὴν θήλειαν τοῦ φωτὸς τὴν ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερβλύσαι καὶ τὸν μὲν Χριστὸν σὺν τῇ μητρὶ εἰς τὸν ἄφθαρτον ἀνασπασθῆναι Αἰῶνα, ἣν καὶ ἀληθινὴν ἐκκλησίαν καλοῦσι

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Irenaeus, Libros quinque adversus haereses, ed. William Wigan Harvey. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg1447.tlg001.local001/.