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Originally Posted by pelathais
Often the burning of a "heretic's" writings was symbolic and not intended to destroy all evidence of the person's existence. Having the writings of those so condemned proved valuable in countering their claims.
The Vatican Library is a repository of a wealth of "heretical" material though to uncover more than just the standard fare requires credentialing by an accreditted university.
Still it's easier to comb those archives than it would be to get a look at Charles F. Parham's letters to Howard Goss which are kept in the vaults of an different "vatican" in Hazelwood.
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I was gonna mention the vatican library, but so far nobody has said they contain Praxeas writing. I can assume, though I might be wrong, that given the prominence of Praxeas (enough for Tertullian to devote writing against him) that he must have written something. Maybe they just did not survive antiquity. However as it was said about the victor, often winning armies attempted to wipe out the culture of the conquored. Rome did this (The Roman Empire). Even muslims did it. They intermarried and forced their religion on others and got rid and out lawed the old. Russia did it to a degree. I WISH the Vatican would open up those archives...has to make you wonder
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