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Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, but its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced…more true than the truth itself.
Iranaeus against Heresies, Preface to bk 1 in vol. 1, The Writings of Iranaeus, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Eerdmans, 5:2.
