Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II rom being able to raise the dead, as the Lord raised them, and the apostles did by means of prayer, and as has been frequently done in the brotherhood on account of some necessity-the entire Church in that particular locality entreating [the boon] with much fasting and prayer, the spirit of the dead man has returned, and he has been bestowed in answer to the prayers of the saints-that they do not even believe this can be possibly be done, [and hold] that the resurrection from the dead[277] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics that certain men, like Phygellus, and Hermogenes, and Philetus, and Hymenµus, deserted His apostle:[32] and "words which spread like a cancer? "[76] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Things which are yet to be?[24] Cyprian Epistle LXXII But if we consider what the apostles thought about heretics, we shall find that they, in all their epistles, execrated and detested the sacrilegious wickedness of heretics. For when they say that "their word creeps as a canker,"[18] Cyprian Treatise III On the Lapsed Flee from such men as much as you can; avoid with a wholesome caution those who adhere to their mischievous contact. Their word doth eat as doth a cancer;[73] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also in the second to Timothy: "Their word doth creep as a canker."[731] Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy And indeed, although we grieve at the destruction of these men, especially that after having once learned the doctrine of the Church, they have now gone back; yet we do not wonder at it; for this very thing Hymenaeus and Philetus suffered,[62]