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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920
Chapter 98
This, beloved, is the preaching of the truth, and this is the manner of our redemption, and this is the way of life, which the prophets proclaimed, and Christ established, and the apostles delivered, and the Church in all the world hands on to her children.1 This must we keep with all certainty, with a sound will and pleasing to God, with good works and right-willed disposition.
Notes
- The same language is found in the preface to Bk. V: “quod prophetae quidem praeconaverunt . . . perfecit autem Christus, apostoli vero tradiderunt, a quibus ecclesia accipiens, per universum mundum sola bene custodiens, tradidit filiis suis:” and similar language in II. xlvii. 2.