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Irenaeus on Truth

b. 202 Greece

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It is not necessary to seek truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church.

Polycarp replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, "Do you know me?" "I do know thee, first-born of Satan." Such was the horror of the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth.

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