Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 268
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I
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Returning to Lyons, our author found that the venerable Pothinus had closed his holy career by a martyr's death ; and naturally Irenaeus became his successor. When the emissaries of heresy followed him, and began to disseminate their licentious practices and foolish doctrines by the aid of " silly women," the great work of his life began. He condescended to study these diseases of the human mind like a wise physician ; and, sickening as was the process of classifying and describing them, he made this also his laborious task, that he might enable others to withstand and to overcome them. …
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