“But that Paul taught with simplicity what he knew, not only to those who were [employed] with him, but to those that heard him, he does himself make manifest. For when the bishops and presbyters who came from Ephesus and the other cities adjoining had assembled in Miletus, since he was himself hastening to Jerusalem t…”
Irenaeus, 3th c. — Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 14), Section 2
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2Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
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1Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
— Luke 1:2 —
3It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
4That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.