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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...

not inhabited, and the house, because there are no persons,* and the land shall he left desert.* For behold, saith Isaiah, the incurable day of the Lord cometh, full of fury and anger, to make the city of the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners out of it.* And again he saith, Let her be taken away, that she may not see the glory of the Lord; and when this shall have happened,* God, saith he, shall remove men to a distance, and the forsaken shall be multiplied in the earth. And they shall build
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