Irenaeus
3rd century · AD 202 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 789 passages
Student of Polycarp. His Against Heresies defends the goodness of creation and traces salvation as God's single plan from Adam to Christ.
In his own words on Ezra
- Ezra 6:7
And there was nothing astonishing in God having done this,-He who, when, during the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, the Scriptures had been corrupted, and when, after seventy years, the Jews had returned to their own land, then, in the times of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, inspired Esdras the priest, of the tribe of Levi, to recast all the words of the former prophets, and to re-establish with the people the Mosaic legislation.
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 3
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.