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Normally, I'm content to leave the question of Gnosticism to others as it doesn't seem too relevant other than the kingdom within part, which is not that part of Gnosticism Ireneus seems to be addressing in his copious work. On episcopal authority, I agree he thought it was a given but to suppose th...

Nice overview, DCHindley! Thanks :). I wished I could find online copy of a linguistic analysis showing the reasoning behind determining that the Latin is a copy of the extant Greek rather than the other way around, however, given this body of manuscript supply the only text that really matters is f...

Great questions there, bcedaifu. I wish I could answer any one of them. I am determined to find out though. Then I can at least say, here is the edge of the lacunae. Take in on faith from here. At the moment, I see most people failing to ask these essential questions and making loud assertions based...

DCH, sounds like a lot of scanning. Did you upload it anywhere I might access it? Jay, yes, we've got to rely on Eusebius for an awful lot. Trying to put the pieces of the historical puzzle together, it looks to me like he wanted Constantine and all the Romans to feel comfortable with Rome as an epi...

I have been attempting to determine the sources of the earliest copy found of Against Heresies. Naturally, I'm most interested in possible discrepancies in the third book. It seem the first book is dated early in Greek through Hippolytus but I'm not sure where the bit from the third book comes from ...