Speaking of the rewards of the just in the next world, he says [Endnote 297:1]:-- 'For Esaias says, "Like as the new heaven and new earth which I create remain before me, saith the Lord, so your seed and your name shall stand." And as the Presbyters say, then too those who are thought worthy to have their abode in Heaven shall go thither, and some shall enjoy the delights of Paradise, while others shall possess the splendour of the City; for everywhere the Saviour shall be seen according as they shall be worthy who look upon Him.
[So far the sentence has been in oratio recta, but here it becomes oblique.] And [they say] that there is this distinction in dwelling between those who bear fruit an hundred fold and those who bear sixty and those who bear thirty, some of whom shall be carried off into the Heavens, some shall stay in Paradise, and some shall dwell in the City.

And for this reason, [they say that] the Lord declared ([Greek: eipaekenai]) that _in my Father's_ [realm] _are many mansions;_ for all things [are] of God, who gives to all the fitting habitation: even as His Word saith (_ait_), that to all is allotted by the Father as each is or shall be worthy.

And this is (_est_) the couch upon which they shall recline who are bidden to His marriage supper.

That this is (_esse_) the order and disposition of the saved, the Presbyters, disciples of the Apostles, say,' etc.
That Irenaeus is here merely giving the 'exegesis of his own day,' as the author of 'Supernatural Religion' suggests [Endnote 297:2], is not for a moment tenable.

Irenaeus does indeed interpose for two sentences (Omnia enim...