Irenaeus

"The Lord has taught with very great fulness, that souls not only continue to exist, not by passing from body to body, but that they preserve the same form as the body had to which they were adapted, a…"

"Wherefore also Luke, commencing the genealogy with the Lord, carried it back to Adam, indicating that it was He who regenerated them into the Gospel of life, and not they Him. And thus also it was tha…"

"Polycarp replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, "Do you know me?" "I do know thee, first-born of Satan." Such was the horror of the apostles and their disciples had against holding…"

"The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death"

"This expression , "How often would I have gathered thy children together, and thou wouldest not," set forth the ancient law of human liberty, because God made man a free from the beginning, possessing…"

"It is not necessary to seek truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church."

"Esaias says: “The wolf also shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall take his rest with the kid; the calf also, and the bull, and the lion shall eat together; and a little boy shall lead them. …"

"Early Christian Writings Irenaeus"