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Irenäus und die Häretiker in Rom

The exceptional role of the gnostic school of Ptolemaeus in Adversus haereses leads to the assumption, that the addressee of Irenaeus's famous work, as the addressees of at least five of his writings or letters, is a Roman. The thesis, that the martyr Ptolemaeus of Justin's second apology (f approximately 152 AD) is the gnostic school-founder, whose followers are fought by Irenaeus thirty years later (cf. von Harnack, Langer beck, Lüdemann, Lampe and others), is not directly supported by Adversus haereses, but Irenaeus indicates (cf. haer. IV 33,9), that his main opponents were honouring (gnostic) martyrs (maybe the Christian teacher Ptolemaeus?). Haer. Ill proem.-5,3 is one of the most discussed passages of Irenaeus's work. These chapters contain some interesting indications, that support the supposition, that Irenaeus addresses his five books against the heresies to a Roman. The principal intention of that passage is not to establish the primacy of the Roman church or its bishop, but to commit it to that responsibility for the entire church, that apostle-founded churches have accepted. Irenaeus criticizes former Roman bishops, who didn't prevent prominent gnostics like Valentin from their activity as Polycarp of Smyrna did, staying in Rome(!), and the Gallic barbarians in Irenaeus's diocesis still do. The consequence is, that the Roman church, if it permits the admiration of a gnostic martyr, endangers the existence of the church all over the world, who suffers martyrdom in the name and the succession of the crucified Lord Jesus Christ, whose real suffering is denied by the heretics. Doing so, the Roman church itself denies the real suffering of Christ by accepting the martyrdom (and with the martyrdom the doctrine) of a prominent gnostic, and it cuts the other churches from the apostolic succession of truth handed down to the church first of all by the true martyrs.