Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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* The letter is quoted by Eusebius, a historian of the church writing a century and a half after the events it describes. It is perfectly possible – indeed likely – that he added his own touches to it; and yet, for all that, allusions in the narrative to doctrinal controversies contemporaneous with Irenaeus make it clear that the bulk of the letter must be authentic. It may even be by Irenaeus himself.