Chapter VII.—Avoid the Docetæ, and persevere in fasting and prayer. - ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

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Chapter VII.—Avoid the Docetæ, and persevere in fasting and prayer.
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Chapter VII.—Avoid the Docetæ, and persevere in fasting and prayer.

“For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;”³⁷⁷

³⁷⁷ 1 John iv. 3.

and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross,³⁷⁸

³⁷⁸ Literally, “the martyrdom of the cross,” which some render, “His suffering on the cross.”
is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan.³⁷⁹

³⁷⁹ [The original, perhaps, of Eusebius (Hist. iv. cap. 14). It became a common-place expression in the Church.]
Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from³⁸⁰

³⁸⁰ Comp. Jude 3.
the beginning; “watching unto prayer,”³⁸¹

³⁸¹ 1 Pet. iv. 7.

and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God “not to lead us into temptation,”³⁸²

³⁸² Matt. vi. 13; Matt. xxvi. 41.
as the Lord has said: “The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.”³⁸³

³⁸³ Matt. xxvi. 41; Mark xiv. 38.
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