Note 58 — BOOK II THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE FAITH
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Harnack well observes that among Clement of Alexandria’s writings, the Pædagogus evidently assumes that the Church for which its teaching was designed embraced a large number of cultured people.
The same conclusion must be arrived at in respect of many of Irenæus’ writings. Irenæus wrote in the last quarter of the second century.