Proof of the Apostolic Preaching

Proof   of the Apostolic Preaching

God and the creation the fall

The way of life

Marcianus is told to keep faith in God as his maker. It is a free notes on the main points to the members of the body of truth and receiving in brief the proof of the things of God which will bear fruit in his own salvation and what he has to say in its integrity and preity. So that he can make his way by faith without deviation with courage and determination and standstill in the straight path.

Faith and good works

Man is a animal made up of soul and body that come about through the instrumentality of both of there; so occasions of stumbling follow from both of them, there is both bodily holiness, all wicket deeds, and holiness of soul the reservation in its integrity of faith in God. Impurity of body is broken and loses its integrity, when falsehood enters the soul but abiding truth in the mind and of holiness in the body can preserved in beauty in God’s presence.

The rile of faith

We must keep strictly the rule of faith and carryout the commands of God, believing in God and fearing him. He is Lord and loving Him because He is Father. We have receive baptism for blot out of sin in the name of God the Father and in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, became incarnate died and was raised in the Holy Spirit of God, the is  real of eternal life.

Origin of creatures

Origin of all is God since it itself was not made by any one, but by It were made all things whatsoever. Therefore, one must believe that there is one God. All things is included this world of ours, with man in it; so this world too was created by God.

The Trinity and creatures

In this way, then, there is declared one God, the Father, and uncreated, invisible, maker of all things, above whom is no other God whatever and God is rational, therefore produced creatures by His Word, and God is a spirit, and so fashioned everything by His Spirit.

The Three articles of the faith

God, the Father, uncreated, beyond grasp, invisible, one God the maker of all; this is the first and foremost article of our faith. Second, Christ Jesus our Lord, in the end of times for the recapitulation of all things, is become a man, visible and tangible, in order to abolish death and bring to light life and bring about the communion of God and man. The third article is the Holy Spirit.

The Trinity and our rebirth

These three articles are granting us rebirth unto God the Father, through His Son and by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is led to the Word but the Son takes them and presents them to the Father; and the Father confers incorruptibility. The Spirit there is no seeing the Word of God, and without the Son there is no approaching the knowledge of the Son is through the Holy Spirit.

God the Father and mankind

Creator of heaven and earth and the whole world, and maker of angels and men, and Lord of all who upholds all things and by whom everything is sustained merciful, compassionate and most tender good just, God of all both of Jews and of Gentiles and of the faithful.

Seven Heaven

The earth is encompassed by even heaven, in which dwell Powers and Angels and Archangels, giving homage to the Almighty God who created all things. The Spirit of God in His indwelling is manifold and is enumerated by Isaias the prophet in the seven charismata resting on the Son of God, that is the Word in His coming as man full of the fear of this Spirit, who lights up the heavens.

God supreme ruler

This God is glorified by His Word, who is His Son for ever, and by the Holy Spirit who is the Wisdom of the father of all and their Powers, which are called Cherubim and Seraphim. He has established with the Word the whole world He has given laws.

Creation of man

He fashioned with His own hands taking of the purest and finest of earth, in measured wise mingling with the earth His own power, He gave his own frame the  outline of His own form. He breathed into his face the breath of life, the man became like God in inspiration as well as in frame to be master of everything on earth.

Paradise

a place was prepare for him better than this world, well-favoured in climate, beauty light, things good to eat, plants fruit water and all other things needful to life; and its name is the Garden. He become man’s fellow, and talk with him, and come among mankind, teaching them justice.

Eve

He decided also to make a help for the man; for God said: it is not good for the man to be alone; let us make him a help like unto himself. God Himself brought a trance upon Adam, and put him to sleep and that one work be accomplished out of another. God took one of the Adam’s ribs and filled up flesh for it and built up the rib which He took into a woman, and brought in this wise to Adam.

Tree of knowledge. Immortality.

The freedom fall into sin against God his creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God a law was given him by God, that he might know for him certain conditions: so that if he kept the command of God, then he would always remain as he was that is immortal; but if he did not, he would become mortal.

The fall

This commandment the man did not keep but disobeyed God, being misled by the angel who bestowed on the man both ruined himself and made the man a sinner who disobeyed God’s command, having offended against God, promoting of his nature he had rebelled and fallen away from God.

History of the redemption

Cain and Abel

The rebel angel had brought the man into disobedience and made him a sinner. A second one filling Cain with his own spirit, he made him a slayer of his brother. And thus Abel died, slain by his brother a sign for the future that some world be persecuted and straitened and slain but the unjust world slay and persecute the just.

The giants

Wickedness very long-continued and widespread pervaded all the race of men, as angels linked themselves with offspring of the daughters of men who bore to them sons who on account of their exceeding great size were called Giants.

The flood

A flood, in the tenth generation from the first man Noe alone was found just, and because of his justice both he himself was saved and all animals which God ordered Noe to bring into the ark. Both mankind and other living things were brought to destruction, what was preserved in the ark were saved.

The curse of Cham

One fell under a curse, and two inherited a blessing for their deeds; for the youngest of them, who is called Cham, mocked their father, and reprobated for the sin of impiety because of the affront and offence against his father received a curse and brought a share of the curse upon all his offspring. Cursed be the child Cham; a slave shall he be of his brethren.

The blessings of Sam and Japheth

the first of them to be blessed was Sam in these words: Blessed be the Lord God of Sam; be Cham his servant. Therefore  the Father and God of all was pleased to be called the god of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob; but the blessing of Japheth was as follows; may God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the house of Sam and Cham be  his servant.

Covenant with Noe

After the flood God established a covenant for the whole world and for all living beasts and for men that He would no more destroy with a flood all the new life of the earth and He appointed them a sigh: When the sky is covered with clouds a bow shall appear in the cloud and I will remember my covenant and no more destroy with water every living thing that moves on the earth.

Babel

The   planning of tower was this means to mount to the heavens being able to leave their work as a memorial to mankind after them. The building was being made of baked brick and bitumen, they being of one mind and heart through the medium of a single language. God divided their tongues.

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Abraham believed God; and it was reputed to him unto justice. There was born to him a son, Isaac, of Sara, the barren, according to God’s promise; and he circumcised him, in accordance with God’s covenant with him; and of Isaac was born Jacob. The Spirit assigning to them the inheritance, He was called the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

Egypt the Passover

Egypt alone there was food; so Jacob migrated along with all his progeny into Egypt. They were greatly afflicted and oppressed. He sent a killer angel, destroying their firstborn, from man to brute. He saved the children of Israel, showing forth in a mystery the Passion of Christ, by the immolation of a spotless lamb and by its blood given as a guarantee of immunity to be smeared on the houses of the Hebrews; and the name of this mystery is the Passover.

The law

In the desert Moses received from God laws, ten sentences on tablets of stone in which is put forth by the Father in the Holy Spirit, and the commandments and laws which He committed to the children of Israel to be kept. God gave them the Levitical law.

The spies the wandering in the desert

When they were near to the land which God had promised to Abraham and Moses chose one man out of each tribe and sent them to spy the land and the cities in it and the inhabitants of the cities. They did return journey -saying that the cities were huge and fortified and the inhabitants’ giants. All people fell to weeping losing trust in God. So God kept them forty years in the desert.

Deuteronomy

Here Moses assembled the people and again summed everything up and imposing on them as it were a new code of laws in addition to the one made before. This was called Deuteronomy.

The Promised Land

Moses having finished his course, God told him to bring his people into the land, it was succeeded by Nun. Whereas the King David, and his son Solomon and built the temple.

The Prophets

Hither were sent by God the prophets and Holy Spirit they admonished the people and the herald of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Incorruptibly

He united man with God and brought about a communion of god and man. He became visible that we mighty be taken into full communication with incorruptibility. So the word was made flesh in order that sin destroyed.

Adam and Christ

God took dust and fashioned the man the beginning of humanity. The Lord was summing up afresh this man. He too might copy the incarnation of Adam and man mighty be made as was written in the beginning according to the image and likeness of God.

Eve and the mother God

A virgin who disobeyed that man was stricken and fell and died it was through the Virgin, who obeyed the word of God that man resuscitated by life received life and Eve in Mary, that a virgin become the advocate of a virgin should undo and destroy virginal disobedience by virginal obedience.

The tree of knowledge and the cross

The sin that was wrought through the tree was undone by the obedience of the tree, obedience to God whereby the son of man was nailed to the tree, destroying knowledge of evil.

Promise to Abraham fulfilled. Justification by faith

Fulfilled the promise made to Abraham by God that He would make his seed like the stars of heaven; for Christ did this by being born of the Virgin who came of Abraham’s seed.

Promise to David fulfilled: Virgin birth

Fulfilled the promise made to David, for God had promised him to raise up from the fruit of his bowels an everlasting king of whose reign there would be n end. This fruitfulness of the virginal womb sprung from David who was everlasting King over the house of David.

The triumph of the redemption

The Son of God became a son of David and a son of Abraham, in order to give us His own life, the Word of God was made flesh through the instrumentality of the Virgin to undo death and work life in man.

Genuine birth death and resurrection

The mercy of god the father He sent the creative word who when He came to save us, He sanctified our birth and abolished death loosing those same bonds by which we were held. He showed forth the resurrection, becoming Himself the First Born from the death.

The primacy of Christ

The first born of the Virgin a just and holy man a servant of God good pleasing to God perfect in all things freeing those who follow Him from Hell.

Apostolic preaching

By these dispositions they established the churches by faith. The Gentiles, who believed and loved the Lord and in return for holiness and justice and patience the God of all would bring through resurrection from the dead the life everlasting.  

The Son in the beginning

All things were made by the word who was in the beginning with the Father, and that is His Son.

The Son an Abraham Sodom and Gomorrah

The two angels go down to Sodom, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven for punishing the men of Sodom.

The trinity and creatures

The father id Lord and the Don is Lord and the Father is God and the Son is God for He who is born of God is God.

The Son pre-existent. Saviour of all

God was preexistent from the fact that the Father spoke Son to be revealed to men before His birth; so He became a man born in Virgin. He who believes in Him will be saved.

The message of scripture

Christ being Son of God in the world with the Father and being with men in a close and intimate communion and Father has made all subject to Him and Saviour of all things.

The Virgin shall conceive: Christ Jesus

Isaias said that a Virgin will be conceived and when she will give birth baby shall be called Immanuel ‘Jesus Christ.’

“Emmanuel” Virgin birth

Emmanuel means ‘God with us,’ it is the manifestation of the good things. The virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and the latter; being God is to be with us.

Wonderful counselor

The Father is addressing the Son as Wonderful Counselor of the Father.

Star of Jacob

Jacob is from Jewish race and Jesus is from there- and Jesus born star appeared and the Magi were led by the star to Judea reached at Bethlehem. Finally they found the boy the Son of God, Christ.

The wolf shall feed with the lamb

At the coming of Christ, He is to be a king of all and through the name of Christ various nations will assemble of the just who are likened to calves and lambs and kids and children.

I will rise up the tabernacle of David.

It is declaring that body of Christ-born as we said before of David as raised after death from the dead; for the body is called a tabernacle.

Bethlehem of Judaea

The place where Christ was to be born was Bethlehem of Judaea.

The Son of David for evermore

David’s sons reigned ‘for evermore’ their kingdom was not ‘for evermore’ but the king who was born of David is Christ.

Christ in the prophets

When He came He would heal men and raise the dead and be hated and despised and undergo sufferings and be slain by crucifixion-as He was hated and despised and slain.

Christ’s miracle

As Isaias says that in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book and in darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see this is all about Jesus.

The passion

Jesus Christ when order was given that he is crucified. Jeremiah says same thing that He shall give His cheek to him that stricken He shall be filled with reproaches. All these things Christ underwent.

Who shall declare his generation?

The pains of His suffering s put us right and underwent all these things has a generation that cannot be declared for generation because it is beyond declaration and expression.

The death of the just man

The Son of God who perfects by justifying those who believe in Him and He died for the sake of our salvation.

Herod and Pilate

Herod was king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate was procurator of Claudius Caesar.

The passion

It was the will of God that He was to undergo the passion.

The arrest of Christ

He was arrested by the Jews and disciples left him and even they believed firmly in Him till they saw after His resurrection.

The parting of the garments

When they crucified Him the soldiers divided His garments, according to their custom and tore the garments to share them out.

The thirty pieces of silver

Judas contracted with the Jews because he saw they wished to kill him, he took thirty pieces of silver from them and delivered Christ to them.

Gall and vinegar

When they raised Him on the Cross, He asked for drink they gave Him to drink vinegar mixed with gall.

The ascension

When He rose from the dead He was to be taken up into heaven. He was lifted up in front of their sight and saw how the heaven open and received Him.

The entry into heaven

He had become incarnate He was also visible in His ascension; when principalities saw him the angels underneath called to those who were on the firmament.

Awaiting the judgment

Christ is raised and ascended by the Father for the judgement, and all enemies are made subject to Him.

Charity supersedes the law

Who loves the Lord has fulfilled the law and our love towards God and our neighbor, rendering us godly and just and good.

Newness of spirit. The new covenant 

Our calling is in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. In this days, I shall be their God they shall be my people.

The Gentiles to be a holy people

This nation was to become a holy people was thus announced through Osee in the twelve prophets because God has removed of the stony heart out of their flesh and they shall walk in His commandments.

Church more fruitful than synagogue

The Church bears fruit in great number of saved by an intercessor that we are saved but the Lord grants more children to the Church than to the Synagogue of the past.

We have no need of the law

We have no need of the law as pedagogue because He made strong in all justice and propriety. Any one take name of the Lord shall be saved.

Nearness of almighty aid

Jesus Christ crucified under Pilate and who believe in Him and do His will come close by, they receive salvation.

 Conclusion

The preaching of the truth is the salvation, it is way of life, and it is handed over by the apostles and handed down by the Church in the whole world to her children.

Bibliography

·         SMITH Joseph P.: Ancient Christian Writings s.v.  St. Irenaeus: Proof of the Apostolic preaching. trans. No. 16, Newman press, New York, 1952.