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Against Heresies

St Irenaeus of Lyons, ANF 1

Fragments, Fragment 4 · As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours,…

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As1 long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.2

Notes

  1. Quoted by Maximus Bishop of Turin, a.d. 422, Serm. vii. de Eleemos., as from the Epistle to Pope Victor. It is also found in some other ancient writers.
  2. One of the mss. reads here τοῦ Θεοῦ, of God.

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