“There are also those who heard from him [Polycarp] that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bathhouse without bathing, exclaiming, 'Let us fly, lest even the bathhouse fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of truth, is within.' And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, and said, 'Dost thou know me?' 'I do know thee, the firstborn of Satan.' Such was the horror which the apostles and their disciples had against holding even verbal communication with any corrupters of the truth;....” Irenaeus, Against Heresies, III:3:4, ANF, 1:416
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