Saint Irenæus



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Fragment 43




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Saint Irenæus (120-202)

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Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson

Fragment 43


In these things there was signified by prophecy that the people, having become transgressors, shall be bound by the chains of their own sins. But the breaking of the bonds of their own accord indicates that, upon repentance, they shall be again loosed from the shackles of sin.





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