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Excerpt from The Treatise of Irenæus of Lugdunum Against the Heresies, Vol. 2: A Translation of the Principal, Passages, With Notes and Arguments
Of themselves acknowledged no other God or Lord; and that especially our Lord bade us call no one Father but Him who is in heaven, who is only God and only Father (matt. Xxiii. For if he had known of many Fathers and gods, he would not have taught his disciples to know one God and to call Him, and Him only, Father (john x. But he made a distinction between those who are styled gods, and Him who is truly God.' 1.
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