Excerpt from The Treatise of Irenaeus of Lugdunum Against the Heresies, Vol. 1: A Translation of the Principal, Passages, With Notes and Arguments In relation to the outside world he proved himself a worthy bishop of the Church. He intervened as peace - maker in the Paschal Controversy, and wrote a dignified letter of protest to Victor, Bishop of Rome, who was acting in a high-handed manner with the Quartodecimans. The principle he laid down, that differences in such details confirm our concord in the faith, was quoted with approbation by the late Bishop Wordsworth (ministry of Grace, p. Irenaeus was the author of several works. 'he wrote books on the Ogdoad, on the Monarchy of God, on Science, ' and one to prove the Apostolic Preaching, which has been recently found in an Armenian translation. There are many fragments of his works; some of these, the Pfaff fragments, are a cause celebra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.