Patristic Quote of the Day

“I have not shunned,” he says, “to declare to you all the counsel of God.” Thus did the apostles simply, and without respect of persons, deliver to all what they themselves had learned from the Lord. Thus also does Luke, without respect of persons, deliver to us what he learned from them, as he has himself testified, saying, “Even as they delivered to us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word.”—St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Ad. Haer. 3.14.2