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Open a window onto the Gnostic controversy facing the church in the second century with one of the only surviving sources on the subject. This, the most important work of St. Irenaeus, examines and refutes the Gnostic teachings, providing a valuable description of Gnosticism as well as an important Christian theological work. Bishop of Lyon and a disciple of Polycarp, Irenaeus wrote Against...

be of long endurance. But now since he was and is not, and shall come up from the abyss,* and go to destruction, as though he were not; so neither is his name proclaimed: for of him who is not, neither is the name proclaimed. However, when this Antichrist shall have wasted all things in this world, reigning three years and six months, and shall have sat in the Temple of Jerusalem:* then shall the Lord come from Heaven in the clouds, in the glory of the Father, on the one hand sending him and his
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