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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... "Si enim qui factus fuerat a Deo homo ut viveret, hie amittens vitam laesus a serpente qui depravaverat eum, jam non reverteretur ad vitam, sed in totum projectus esset morti, victus esset Deus, et superasset serpentis nequitia voluntatem Dei. Sed quoniam Deus invictu8 et magnanimis est, magnanimem quidem se exhibuit ad correptionem homiois et probationem omnium, quemadmodum praediximus: per secundum autem hominem I may add that the doctrine of Irenaeus was probably suggested to him by the theory of redemption first put forward by Marcion.1 It was because by bringing about the death of Jesus the God of the Jews--the generally just but not benevolent Demiurge--had violated his own laws, that it became just for the true and benevolent God to set man free from the Demiurge. Irenaeus simply substituted the Devil for the Demiurge. It should be observed that this theory, hideous as it is, is not precisely the same theory as that which represents the death of Christ as a substitutionary, an expiatory, or a propitiatory sacrifice, nor is it really even compatible with it. Still less is it a theory of vicarious punishment. If the Father allowed Christ to die merely that the just claims of the Devil might be satisfied, He did not die because the Father's wrath must have a victim or because an abstract justice demanded punishment. At the same time this incompatibility was not usually seen by those who accepted the theory of a transaction with the Devil: the theory was treated as an explanation of the biblical or traditional language about the sacrificial or penal character of Christ's death, and appears side by side with such language in Irenaeus and his successors. In some of its exponents it had at least the good effect of neutralizing...
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