“For the tongue, which is our instrument of speech, should be consecrated to truth, not to error.”
—Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 120/140 – c. 203)
Source: Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885), 455.
Reflective Question: How does Irenaeus’s insistence that speech be “consecrated to truth” challenge us to examine the integrity of our communication in both personal and public life?