This survey of voices... reveal a few important points regarding the early precedence of Irenaean premillennialism. First, when they were not silent on the issue of the millennium, first-century and second-century Christian texts espoused a premillennial perspective (Didache Barnabas. Papias of Hierapolis, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, Tertullian, Hippolytus). This premillennial perspective was not isolated to one place but was geographically widespread (e.g., Didache in Antioch, Barnabas in Egypt, Papias in Asa Justin and Hippolytus in Rome, Irenaeus in Gaul, and Tertullian in western North Afríca), Also, premillennialism was presented in diverse texts and traditions-from the allegorizing of Barnabas to the careful, almost systematic articulation and defense by Irenaeus, By the time we reach Irenaeus in the late second century, premillennialism is fairly well developed, exhibiting all the signs of a well-thought-out eschatological system, From where did Irenaeus get such teachings? By his own words, he claims to have received them from his own teachers who had received them from the apostles themselves (Haer, 5.33.3; Epid, 61) - Dr. Michael Svigel, The Fathers on the Future, p.62