SOURCE: “On the Exegesis of the Bible,” in The Biblical Theology of Saint Irenaeus, The Epworth Press, 1948, pp. 55-86.
In the following essay, Lawson contends that in Irenaeus's writings on both the Old and the New Testament, exegesis is subjective and allegorical. Superscript numbers next to biblical references throughout this essay refer to verse numbers.
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