The Apostolic Fathers

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus

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Fragment 26

Know that every person is either empty or full. For if someone does not have the Holy Spirit, they have no knowledge of the Creator; they have not received Jesus Christ the Life; they do not know the Father who is in heaven; if they do not live by reason and the heavenly law, they are not sober-minded, nor do they act uprightly: such a person is empty. If, on the other hand, they receive God, who says, "I will dwell with them, and walk in them, and I will be their God," such a person is not empty, but full.