wrongfully practised deceit upon him, and by the offer of immortality made him subject to death. For by promising that they should be as gods, which did not lie in his power, he worked death in them. Wherefore he who had taken man captive was himself taken captive by God, and man who had been taken captive was set free from the bondage of condemnation.”7 In the first of these passages Irenæus speaks of sin and death as the enemies of mankind; in the second there emerges by the side of or behind death