A bishop of Lyons who had listened, as a boy, to Polycarp — who had listened to John. His five books Against Heresies are the fullest account we have of what the second-century church believed and of the teachers it argued with. Modern English.
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Contents
Against Heresies, Book II
1Nothing Above the Creator2A Stain in the Pleroma3Thirty Aeons and One Creator4Ropes of Sand5God Has No Parts6Old Fables, New Names7Images of Images8Torches Lit from One Torch9Wisdom That Was Not Wise10A Seed Without Substance11Judas and the Twelfth Aeon12The Age of a Teacher13Numbers Prove Nothing14Counting Sparrows and Building on Sand15What Only God Knows16Nothing Left for the Pleroma17Prove It by Your Works18Freely Received, Freely Given19The Cup of Forgetfulness