Authorship of John, Part 4: Irenaeus and Ptolemy the Gnostic

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Did Irenaeus, or a mid-second-century compiler, invent the authorship of John to help oppose Gnosticism? Nope. Turns out, the debate with the Gnostics was over the interpretation of John, not its authorship.

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