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Chapter V.—Many Eminent Christian Writers Have Carefully and
Fully Refuted the Heresy. These the Author Makes His Own
Guides.
My own path, however, lies along the original
tenets6665
of their chief
teachers, not with the self-appointed leaders of their
promiscuous6666
followers. Nor
shall we hear it said of us from any quarter, that we have of our own
mind fashioned our own materials, since these have been already
produced, both in respect of the opinions and their refutations, in
carefully written volumes, by so many eminently holy and excellent men, not only those
who have lived before us, but those also who were contemporary with the
heresiarchs themselves: for instance Justin, philosopher and
martyr;6667
| 6667 [See Vol. I. pp. 171,
182, this series]. | Miltiades, the
sophist6668
| 6668 In a good sense, from
the elegance of his style. | of the churches;
Irenæus, that very exact inquirer into all doctrines;6669
| 6669 [See Vol. I. p. 326,
of this series. Tertullian appropriates the work of Irenæus, (B.
i.) against the Gnostics without further ceremony: translation
excepted.] | our own Proculus, the model6670
| 6670 Dignitas. [Of this
Proculus see Kaye, p. 55.] | of chaste old age and Christian
eloquence. All these it would be my desire closely to follow in
every work of faith, even as in this particular one. Now if there
are no heresies at all but what those who refute them are supposed to
have fabricated, then the apostle who predicted them6671
must have been guilty of falsehood. If,
however, there are heresies, they can be no other than those which are
the subject of discussion. No writer can be supposed to have so much
time on his hands6672
as to fabricate
materials which are already in his possession.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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