xii Writings of Irenaeus
V in armenischer Version, TU 35.2 (Leipzig: Heinrichs, 1910); its evidence is factored
in to the edition by Rousseau.
There is a full English translation by Archibald Roberts and W. H. Rambaut in The
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, reprinted from The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vols 5
and 9 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1868–1869) and available online. It is basically accurate
and reliable, if rather woodenly Victorian, though it does not, of course, reflect the
very significant improvements that have been made to the text of Irenaeus in the past
century and a half.
F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock published an abridged translation, The Treatise of Ire-
naeus of Lugdunum, Against the Heresies, 2 vols (London: SPCK, 1916), and excerpts
are translated in Robert M. Grant, Irenaeus of Lyons, Fathers of the Church (New York:
Routledge, 1977). Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, Against the Heresies, Book I, trans. D. J.
Unger, rev. J. J. Dillon, Ancient Christian Writers 55 (Westminster: Newman, 1992),
contains the first book with extensive notes. Book III, by Ungar and Irenaeus M. C.
Steenberg, appeared in the same series at the beginning of 2012, and further volumes
are promised. A complete one-volume translation is being prepared by Paul and Sara
Parvis and Denis Minns.
- Demonstration (Epideixis) of the Apostolic Preaching.
The Demonstration is mentioned by Eusebius (HE V.26) but was only published from
the same Armenian manuscript that contains Haer. IV and V, in 1907: Karapet Ter-
Mekerttschian and Erwand Ter-Minassianz, Des heiligen Irenäus, Schrift zum Erweise
der apostolischen Verkündigung, ΕΙΣ ΕΠΙΔΕΙΞΙΝ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΟΥ ΚΗΡΥΓΜΑΤΟΣ,
in armenischer Version, with notes by Adolf Harnack, TU 31.1 (Leipzig: Heinrichs,
1907). Reliable English translations include:
The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, trans. J. A. Robinson (London: SPCK, 1920);
Proof of the Apostolic Preaching, trans. J. P. Smith, Ancient Christian Writers 16 (Westminster: New-
man, 1952);
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons On the Apostolic Preaching, trans. John Behr (Crestwood: Saint Vladimir’s Semi-
nary Press, 1997).
Eusebius of Caesarea, writing shortly before 300, gives the titles of six other works,
quoting fragments from three of them:
- A letter Against Blastus, On Schism (HE V.20.1);
- A letter Against Florinus, On the Monarchy, or On the Fact That God Is Not the
Maker of Evil (HE V.20.1, with a fragment at V.20.4-8); - A treatise On the Ogdoad, written “because of Florinus” (HE V.20.1, with a
fragment at V.20.2); - A letter to Victor of Rome, written “on behalf of the brethren throughout
Gaul over whom he was presiding” on the controversy with the churches of Asia