It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to…

Irenaeus of Lyons
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It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.
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