Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 273
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It may be made matter of regret, that so large a portion of the work of Irengeus is given to an exposition of the manifold Gnostic speculations. Nothing more absurd than these has prob- ably ever been imagined by rational beings. Some ingenious and learned men have indeed endeavoured to reconcile the wild theories of these heretics with the principles of reason ; but, as Bishop Kaye remarks {Eccl. Hist, of the Second and Third Centuries, p. 524), "a more ardu- ous or unpromising undertaking cannot well be conceived." The fundamental object of the Gnostic speculations was doubtless to sol…
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