Irenaeus To Florinus - c. 170 A.D.

Florinus had previously held that God was the author of evil, which sentiment Irenæus opposed in a treatise, now lost, called _περὶ μοναρχίας_ - *On the Sole Sovereignty* or *That God is not the Author of Evil*

This interesting extract we also owe to Eusebius, who took it from the work De Ogdoade, written after this former friend of Irenæus had lapsed to Valentinianism.