Fragments

Fragmenta · Ἀποσπάσματα

Only fragment 2 is staged; further Greek fragments from the catena tradition are listed in the inventory.

2Irenaeus says that one who can do good to his neighbors and does not will be counted a stranger to the Lord's love.

About this work

Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
Attribution: authentic · Greek fragments of Irenaeus preserved in later authors. Only fragment 2 (from his letter to Victor of Rome on the Easter dispute, preserved by Maximus the Confessor) is staged here; the long fragment from the same letter (about the Easter fast, quoted by Eusebius, Church History 5.24) is on this site inside Eusebius.
Standing: Honoured by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant.
Date: ca. 190 (approximate) · The letter to Victor belongs to the Easter controversy under Victor (bishop of Rome ca. 189–199).
Written at: Lyon, Gaul (probable)
Language: Greek
Genre: other
Reference system: fragment number, as in Routh
SBL abbreviation: Frag.Not yet checked
Clavis: CPG number not yet checked
Text from: Martin Joseph Routh, ed., Reliquiae sacrae, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1846), p. 48 (via First1KGreek tlg1447.tlg009) (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0 (Open Greek and Latin))
Critical editions: Adelin Rousseau et al., eds., Irénée de Lyon: Contre les hérésies, SC (cited only) (cited, not reproduced)