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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.

probability the Apostle would have spoken of that other Aeon. But if the Word of the Father, who descended, is the one who also ascended, namely the Only-begotten Son of the one God,15 who according to the Father’s good pleasure became flesh for the sake of men, then John is not speaking of anyone else, nor of the Ogdoad, but of the Lord Jesus Christ. For, according to them, Word did not directly become flesh; but Savior put on an ensouled body,16 they say, which was fashioned out of the Economy
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