How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?

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Secret Alias
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How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?

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Certain?
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Re: How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?

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Probably a third century forgery?
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Re: How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?

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At face value the letter as quoted by Eusebius does not claim to be written by Irenaeus.
Irenaeus is named as the bearer of the letter from Lyons to Rome but this does not necessarily imply he was the author.

Andrew Criddle
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