Some have argued the Irenaeus actually switched his view in the middle of writing Against Heresies. He begins with what we might call Amil today, but then overreacted in response to gnosticism later in his book and advocated chilism.

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Patrick
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MDiv, RTS Jackson.

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.