Against Heresies
Irenaeus of Lyons
Book 2 · Chapter 25
About this work
A five-book account and refutation of competing Christian movements that also develops Irenaeus’s positive theology of creation, Scripture, apostolic tradition, incarnation, salvation, and recapitulation in Christ.
- Author
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- Date
- c. AD 175–185
- Origin
- Lyons, Gaul
- Genre
- Heresiology
God is not to be sought after by means of letters, syllables, and numbers; necessity of humility in such investigations.
Section 1
1. If any one, however, say