Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus.
"Wherefore we must obey the priests of the Church who have succession from the Apostles, as we have shown, who, together with succession in the episcopate, have received the certain mark of truth according to the will of the Father; all others, however, are to be suspected, who separated themselves from the principal succession.".
(Irenaeus 1885, Book IV, Chapter 26)
Irenaeus (1885a). Alexander Roberts; James Donaldson; A. Cleveland Coxe (eds.).
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus.
Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 1.
Translated by Alexander Roberts. Buffalo, NY:
Christian Literature Publishing Co.
Some questions:
* What historical evidence is there for the existence of Christianity in Rome?
* What is the date of this evidence and what dating methodology was used?
* How is that the church in Rome waited until the later 4th century for Jerome to produce a Latin Bible?
* When did the doctrine of Apostolic Succession become important to the Roman church?
* Does the doctrine of Apostolic Succession have a legitimate historical foundation?
* How opportune to the Roman church were these Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus?
* The US government forged electoral results in the 21st century for their own advantage. So why couldn't the Latin Church Industry of the 4th (or subsequent) century forge "fragments of Irenaeus" for their own advantage?