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St. Irenaeus on Mary

Posted in Apologetics, Early Church Fathers, tagged , , , , on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

  In book 3 chapter  22 of Irenaeus’s masterful refutation of the Gnostic heresy, Adversus Haereses, we find Irenaeus referring to Mary as the “second Eve” the same as he refers to Jesus as the “second Adam”. Here we have an early acknowledgement of the role of Mary in the salvation story of mankind.   4. In accordance with this design, Mary [...]

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