Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V pointing out thus that remission of sins which follows upon His advent, by which "He has destroyed the handwriting" of our debt, and "fastened it to the cross; "[151] Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus Now those oblations are not according to the law, the handwriting of which the Lord took away from the midst by cancelling it;[77] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews was also necessary, (that figure) through which Jesus was to win the victory?[213] on which the "serpent" the devil was "made a show of,"[216] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Now triumphed over, to unequal[6] Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments and then, "Blotting out the handwriting of sins that was against us."[171]