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The Writings of Irenæus, Vols. 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains an introduction by the translators and the books of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, in which he speaks against the Gnostic sect of heretics. Also included are fragments from Irenaeus’ lost writings.

this appellation. Among many persons, too, this name is accounted divine, so that even the sun is termed “Titan” by those who do now possess [the rule]. This word, too, contains a certain outward appearance of vengeance, and of one inflicting merited punishment because he (Antichrist) pretends that he vindicates the oppressed.1 And besides this, it is an ancient name, one worthy of credit, of royal dignity, and still further, a name belonging to a tyrant. Inasmuch, then, as this name “Titan” has
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