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Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses)
Book I
By Irenaeus of Lyons
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Chapter III: Texts Of Holy Scripture Used By These Heretics To Support Their Opinions.
Chapter VIII: How The Valentinians Pervert The Scriptures To Support Their Own Pious Opinions.
Chapter IX: Refutation Of The Impious Interpretations Of These Heretics.
Chapter X: Unity Of The Faith Of The Church Throughout The Whole World.
Chapter XI: The Opinions Of Valentinus, With Those Of His Disciples And Others.
Chapter XII: The Doctrines Of The Followers Of Ptolemy And Colorbasus.
Chapter XIII: The Deceitful Arts And Nefarious Practices Of Marcus.
Chapter XIV: The Various Hypotheses Of Marcus And Others. Theories Respecting Letters And Syllables.
Chapter XVI: Absurd Interpretations Of The Marcosians.
Chapter XVIII: Passages From Moses, Which The Heretics Pervert To The Support Of Their Hypothesis.
Chapter XXI: The Views Of Redemption Entertained By These Heretics.
Chapter XXII: Deviations Of Heretics From The Truth.
Chapter XXIII: Doctrines And Practices Of Simon Magus And Menander.
Chapter XXIV: Doctrines Of Saturninus And Basilides.
Chapter XXV: Doctrines Of Carpocrates.
Chapter XXVI: Doctrines Of Cerinthus, The Ebionites, And Nicolaitanes.
Chapter XXVII: Doctrines Of Cerdo And Marcion.
Chapter XXVIII: Doctrines Of Tatian, The Encratites, And Others.
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About St. Irenaeus of Lyons, ca. 140 AD — ca. 202 AD
William A. Jurgens' The Faith of the Early Fathers has this to say about St. Irenaeus:
St. Irenaeus was the second bishop of Lyons, succeeding the martyred bishop St. Pothinus in the year 177 or 178 A.D., when he himself was perhaps about 37 years old. He was a native of Asia Minor, probably of Smyrna, where in his youth he had been a pupil of St. Polycarp. His passage to Gaul, where we meet him as an esteemed presbyter of the Church of Lyons immediately before the death of his episcopal predecessor, is one of history's mysteries. To exchange figs for frogs is incredible. True to his name of Peacemaker, as Eusebius remarks, it was Irenaeus who sought to make peace between Victor of Rome and Polycrates of Ephesus, when Victor was threatening excommunication against the latter. After this incident of about the year 190 A.D., Irenaeus disappears from history and is presumed to have died about the year 202 A.D. Not until Gregory of Tours wrote his History of the Franks do we find Irenaeus mentioned as a martyr; and such late testimony is necessarily suspect, especially in view of the fact that Eusebius, who has good knowledge of Irenaeus, says nothing of his supposed martyrdom. |
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Transliteration of Greek words: All phonetical except: w = omega; h serves three puposes: 1. = Eta; 2. = rough breathing, when appearing intially before a vowel; 3. = in the aspirated letters theta = th, phi = ph, chi = ch. Accents are given immediately after their corresponding vowels: acute = ' , grave = `, circumflex = ^. The character ' doubles as an apostrophe, when necessary.
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