Against Heresies
Irenaeus of Lyons
Book 4 · Chapter 3
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
Answer to the cavils of the Gnostics. We are not to suppose that the true God can be changed, or come to an end because the heavens, which are His throne and the earth, His footstool, shall pass away.
Section 1
1. Again, as to their malignantly asserting