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Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Books I–V

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Against Heresies: Book I — Chapter XIV.—The various hypotheses of Marcus and others. Theories respecting letters and syllables. (part 2)

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analysis of that name which cannot be expressed in words, and the soul of the world and of man, according as they possess that arrangement, which is after the image [of things above], he has uttered his nonsensical opinions. It remains that I relate how the Tetrad showed him from the names a power equal in number; so that nothing, my friend, which I have received as spoken by him, may remain unknown to thee; and thus thy request, often proposed to me, may be fulfilled.