{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010883.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010883.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010883.htm","text":"For 4812 as the ark [of the covenant] was gilded within and without with pure gold, so was also the body of Christ pure and resplendent; for it was adorned within by the Word, and shielded without by the Spirit, in order that from both [materials] the splendour of the natures might be clearly shown forth.\nCited by Leontius of Byzantium, who flourished about the year a.d. 600; but he does not mention the writing of Iren\u00e6us from which it is extracted. Massuet conjectures that it is from the De Ogdoade, addressed to the apostate Florinus.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IREN\u00c6US: VIII.","type":"page"}