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IV.1745
1745 From Irenæus,
Hær., v. 32. [Hearsay at second-hand, and handed about among
many, amounts to nothing as evidence. Note the reports of sermons, also,
as they appear in our daily Journals. Whose reputation can survive if
such be credited?]
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As the elders who saw John the disciple of the Lord
remembered that they had heard from him how the Lord taught in regard to
those times, and said]: “The days will come in which vines shall
grow, having each ten thousand branches, and in each branch ten thousand
twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in every one of the
shoots ten thousand clusters, and on every one of the clusters ten
thousand grapes, and every grape when pressed will give five-and-twenty
metretes of wine. And when any one of the saints shall lay hold of a
cluster, another shall cry out, ‘I am a better cluster, take me;
bless the Lord through me.’ In like manner, [He said] that a grain
of wheat would
produce ten thousand ears, and that every ear
would have ten thousand grains, and every grain would yield ten pounds of
clear, pure, fine flour; and that apples, and seeds, and grass would
produce in similar proportions; and that all animals, feeding then only
on the productions of the earth, would become peaceable and harmonious,
and be in perfect subjection to man.”1746
1746 [See Grabe, apud Routh, 1. 29.]
| [Testimony is borne to these things in writing by Papias, an
ancient man, who was a hearer of John and a friend of Polycarp, in the
fourth of his books; for five books were composed by him. And he added,
saying, “Now these things are credible to believers. And Judas the traitor,” says he, “not
believing, and asking, ‘How shall such growths be accomplished by
the Lord?’ the Lord said, ‘They shall see who shall come to
them.’ These, then, are the times mentioned by the prophet Isaiah:
‘And the wolf shall lie down with the lamb,’ etc.
(Isa. xi. 6 ff.).”]E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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