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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...

For God is true and stedfast: and therefore He said that the meek are blessed,* for they shall inherit the earth. . § 1. And with a view to this, when coming to His Passion, that He might preach to Abraham, and those who were with him, that Gospel which revealed their inheritance;—when with the Cup in His Hands He had given thanks, and had drunk of it, and given it to His Disciples, He said to them, Drink ye all of it;* This is My Blood of the New Testament, which shall be shed for many
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