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This volume contains Irenaeus’ The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching. It also includes translator J. Armitage Robinson’s introduction and notes.

was lost;1 and man it was that was lost: and for this cause there was not made some other formation,2 but in that same which had its descent from Adam He preserved the likeness of the (first) formation.3 For it was necessary that Adam should be summed up in Christ,* that mortality might be swallowed up and overwhelmed by immortality; and Eve summed up in Mary, that a virgin should be a virgin’s intercessor,4 and by a virgin’s obedience undo and put away the disobedience of a virgin. 34. And the trespass
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