Writers of Sound Faith

In those days there flourished in the Church Hegesippus, whom we know from what has gone before; Dionysius, bishop of Corinth; Pinytus, another of the bishops in Crete; and besides these Philip, Apollinaris, Melito, Musanus and Modestus, and above all Irenaeus. From them the orthodoxy of the sound faith that comes from the apostolic tradition has come down to us in writing. [a]