catalogue of Irenaeus’s own writings, at least those “that have come to our knowledge” (HE V.26) and (4) an account of the books Irenaeus accepted as canonical. He is (5) suspicious of Irenaeus’s views on chiliasm and the thousand-year reign of Christ but (6) knows him as a man of peace—which is, after all, what the name “Irenaeus” means—and as one who was active and influential in the ecclesiastical affairs of his day. Those six points deserve to be looked at one at a time. First,