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Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Volume 5: The Writings of Iren (Volume 1) (edit title)

Irenæus (?) (edit contributors)

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Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1868 edition by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh.

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1. INASMUCH as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says, "minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith," and by means of their craftily-constructed plausibilities draw away the minds of the inexperienced and take them captive, <I have felt constrained, my dear friend, to compose the following treatise in order to expose and counteract their machinations.>
 

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