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Works Irenaeus of Lyon (130-202) Contra Haereses

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Gegen die Häresien (BKV)

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Einige von ihnen zeichnen ihre Schüler, indem sie ihnen an der hinteren Seite des rechten Ohrläppchens ein Brandmal beibringen. So hat Marzellina, die als Anhängerin dieser Lehre unter Anicet nach Rom kam, viele betört. Sie nennen sich Gnostiker und haben gemalte oder sonstwie hergestellte Bilder Christi, dessen Typus von Pilatus gemacht sein soll zu der Zeit, da Jesus unter den Menschen wandelte. Diese krönen sie und stellen sie gleichzeitig mit den Bildern weltlicher Philosophen wie des Pythagoras, Plato, Aristoteles und anderer aus und unterscheiden sich in solchen Gebräuchen wenig von den Heiden.

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Against Heresies

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Others of them employ outward marks, branding their disciples inside the lobe of the right ear. From among these also arose Marcellina, who came to Rome under [the episcopate of] Anicetus, and, holding these doctrines, she led multitudes astray. They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them. 1 They crown these images, and set them up along with the images of the philosophers of the world that is to say, with the images of Pythagoras, and Plato, and Aristotle, and the rest. They have also other modes of honouring these images, after the same manner of the Gentiles.


  1. [This censure of images as a Gnostic peculiarity, and as a heathenish corruption, should be noted.] ↩

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Against Heresies
Gegen die Häresien (BKV)
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Introductory Note to Irenaeus Against Heresies

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