Irenaeus Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
The Ante-Nicene Library that Logos offers is fairly extensive, but it is probably impossible to have a truly complete collection of any era of the Fathers - there are just so many of them. 
And, of course, it cannot contain documents found since it was originally published.
In 1904 one such document was found - Irenaeus's Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching - in an Armenian translation. If was mentioned in Eusebius, but had been considered lost.
But now it is found. It is drastically shorter than Against Heresies, and so does not give anything like the detail of the larger work. Instead it is more catechetical treatment by Irenaeus of the Faith once delivered to the Saints. As such, it servers (IMHO) as a fine introduction to how Christians read the Bible c. 200. If you want more detail, go to Against Heresies and Justin's Dialogue with Trypho.
In 1920 J Armitage Robinson published an English translation of it. While he admits to not being an expert in Armenian, he was an expert in Irenaeus. And so his careful edition is quite highly notated, and can serve as a guide for where to go for more information even today.
ABOUT THIS EDITION: The main source for this is from CCEL (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/irenaeus/demonstr). While I did proof this a bit with the copy on Google books, it is obvious that the person or people behind this have spent a lot of time on it. The footnote numbering is from them - in SPCK's original they were numbered by page. In addition, the original had margin notes. Some were inserted into the text parenthetically by CCEL. I added a few more that way and also tried to link the biblical quotes. In addition I tried to link with as many early documents as possible.
Unfortunately since to the best of my knowledge there is no datatype for this work, it does not link to itself very well. When Robinson references a page in this work, I created a link. But when he references a paragraph number of Irenaeus's work, I did not.
But I offer this to the community as an introduction to this great early Christian thinker.
SDG
Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
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Thanks Kenneth!
FYI, I am not sure why, I have not been able to figure it out, but compiling this document gets a whole lot of "Unknown language: 'la-Latin'" errors??
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Yes, Latin and Greek text quoted in this (and there is a lot of it) is marked as Latin and Greek so Logos can handle it better.
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Thanks again for sharing with us, Kenneth! I am overwhelmed by the vast labours of love you engage in. Unfortunately I still have a few serious health issues that don't seem to be going away, so I haven't had time and opportunity to engage others in the Logos Groups. *smile* Peace and Joy! *smile*
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Kenneth:
Your generosity and service continue to be an example to all.
macOS (Logos Pro - Beta) | Android 13 (Logos Stable)
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Thanks.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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No textual changes for this, but I did add a few links - one to Plato and a couple Tertullian. Real reason for the update is that I found in working on something else that the format I used for the links to Athenagoras has changed and is no longer recognized by the current compiler, and so I have updated them to a new format that works now.
SDG
Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Thanks for the update Kenneth, this is a great resource!
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Thank you very much, Kenneth!! A lot of tagging! Wow!!
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Thank you Ken !
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I need milestones (L4 link) for this work. Who can help me?
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ilian said:
I need milestones (L4 link) for this work.
There are now milestones possible for this work, due to the fact that Logos meanwhile built a datatype for it (after this PB was shared, two different editions of DAP have been made available in Logos - one actually being the work Ken shared back then, the other one being a modern version with new introduction, different translator etc.).
The syntax would be [[@Irenaeus:Demonst. xx]] where you replace the xx with the chapter number.
Have joy in the Lord!
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I hate to tease, but looking at my source files, it looks like I updated it in 2015 to include these milestones - and links to this milestone in the intro. But as NB mentioned, this actual translation is available now, and I have made the choice to not publicly update any work that now exists in official Logos editions since it just seems wrong to me to use the Logos infrastructure to compete with something Logos sells.
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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