"Polycarp replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, "Do you know me?" "I do know thee, first-born of Satan." Such was the horror of the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth."
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Irenaeus, Against Heresies Book 3, Chapter 3 from Readings in World Christian History (2013), pp. 58-99
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