Scripture Meditation: Irenaeus: The Harmony of Scripture
Teaching on Scripture Meditation from Irenaeus of Lyon: Irenaeus: The Harmony of Scripture
This is a spiritual discipline on scripture unity and canonical reading, drawing on Luke 24:27, John 5:39 and 2 Timothy 3:15-17.
Irenaeus of Lyon (d. c. 202) taught that all of Scripture tells a single coherent story of God's saving work. Against the Gnostics who selectively quoted Scripture to support their heresies, Irenaeus insisted on reading each passage in the context of the whole. He used the image of a mosaic: the heretics rearranged the tiles of Scripture to form the picture of a fox, when the original design was a portrait of a king.…
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