Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 279
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I
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2. Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, ' The Greek original of the work of Irenaeus is from time to time recovered through the numerous quotations made from it by subse- quent writers, especially by the author's pupil Hippolytus, and by Epiphanius. The latter preserves {Har., xxxi. sees. 9-32) the preface of Irenffius, and most of the first book. An important difference of readmg occurs between the Latin and Greek in the very …
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