7.
[302:1] _Haer_.

216-222.
[302:2] It should however be noticed that these words are given only in the old Latin translation of Irenaeus and are wanting in the Greek as preserved by Epiphanius.

Whether the words were accidentally omitted, or whether they were inserted inferentially, for greater clearness, by the translator, it is hard to say.

In any case the bearing of the quotations must be very much the same.
If not made by Ptolemaeus himself, they were made by a contemporary of Ptolemaeus, i.e.at least by a writer anterior to Irenaeus.
[302:3] _Adv.Haer_.ii.4.

1; cf.