Even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
Thus also does Luke, without respect of persons, deliver to us what he had learned from them, as he has himself testified, saying, "Even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the Word.".
In the preceding book, then, the ideas of the apostles as to all these points have been set forth,