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How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?
Posted: Sun May 12, 2019 6:03 am
by Secret Alias
Certain?
Re: How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?
Posted: Sun May 12, 2019 6:19 am
by Secret Alias
Probably a third century forgery?
Re: How Certain Are We That the Letter About the Persecutions at Lyons was Written by Irenaeus?
Posted: Sun May 12, 2019 6:34 am
by andrewcriddle
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