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St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies, Book 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Against the Heresies establishes Irenaeus as the most important theologian of the second century. It is a detailed and effective refutation of Gnosticism, and a major source of information on the various Gnostic sects and doctrines in early Christianity.

5. Luke further says of the Lord, And when the days of … purification were fulfilled … they brought Him to Jerusalem to present [Him] to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord,” and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”32 Luke most manifestly and in his own name calls Him Lord who made the law. And he tells us, too, that Simeon blessed God and
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