Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV ). For Christ is the treasure which was hid in the field,[352] Address of Tatian to the Greeks For we know that the nature of wickedness is like that of the smallest seeds; since it has waxed strong from a small beginning, but will again be destroyed if we obey the words of God and do not scatter ourselves. For He has become master of all we have by means of a certain "hidden treasure,"[79] Let us, then, institute a comparison between them; and we shall find that our doctrines are older, not only than those of the Greeks, but than the invention of letters.[80] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X "[19]