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Excerpt from Irenaeus of LugdunumO early Christian writer has deserved better of the whole Church than Irenaeus. His refutation of Gnosticism is perhaps the least of his claims upon the attention of the student. Gnosticism would doubtless have met its fate if Irenaeus had never written, and for the modern reader its grotesque speculations have little interest. But the great work of Irenaeus offers us far more than the polemic of a by-gone age....
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