Excerpt from Irenaeus (ca. 120-202 AD), "Against Heresies"


	Excerpt from Irenaeus (ca. 120-202 AD), "Against Heresies"

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8-27-2008 9:45 PM

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A key excerpt from one of St. Irenaeus's key anti-gnostic writings in which he lays out the doctrine of "recapitulation," i.e., Jesus' reversal and healing of all the accumulated sins of human history.

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