Know [4840] thou that every man is either empty or full. For if he has not the Holy Spirit, he has no knowledge of the Creator; he has not received Jesus Christ the Life; he knows not the Father who is in heaven; if he does not live after the dictates of reason, after the heavenly law, he is not a sober-minded person, nor does he act uprightly: such an one is empty. If, on the other hand, he receives God, who says, "I will dwell with them, and walk in them, and I will be their God," [4841] such an one is not empty, but full.

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Footnotes:

[4840] It is not certain from what work of Irenæus this extract is derived; Harvey thinks it to be from his work peri epistemes, i.e., concerning Knowledge.

[4841] Leviticus 26:12.