CHAPTER XXVI

THE ELEGANT WORKS OF IRENÆUS THAT HAVE COME DOWN TO US

BESIDES the works and epistles of Irenæus above-mentioned, there is a certain very brief and most important discourse by him On Knowledge, against the Greeks; another also, which he dedicated to his brother, named Marcion, as a proof of the apostolic preaching: a book also of various disputes, in which he mentions the Epistle to the Hebrews and the book called the Wisdom of Solomon, quoting certain passages from them. These are the works of Irenæus that have come down to us. After Commodus had ended his reign in the thirteenth year, and Pertinax had held the government not quite six months, Severus was created emperor, and ruled the state.