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| Chapter VI.—Abstain from the poison of heretics. PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP
I therefore, yet not I, but the
love of Jesus Christ, entreat you that ye use Christian nourishment only,
and abstain from herbage of a different kind; I mean heresy. For
those755
755 The ellipsis in
the original is here very variously supplied. | [that are given
to this] mix756
756 Literally,
“interweave.” | up Jesus Christ with their own
poison, speaking things which are unworthy of credit, like those who
administer a deadly drug in sweet wine, which he who is ignorant of does
greedily757 take, with a fatal pleasure758
758 The construction is here
difficult and doubtful. | leading to his own death.
I therefore, yet not I, out the love of Jesus Christ,
“entreat you that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no
divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same
mind, and in the same judgment.”759 For there are some vain talkers760 and deceivers, not Christians, but Christ-betrayers,761
761 Literally,
“Christ-sellers.” | bearing about the name of
Christ in deceit, and “corrupting the word”762 of the Gospel; while they intermix the poison of their deceit
with their persuasive talk,763
763 Literally, “sweet address.” | as
if they mingled aconite with sweet wine, that so he who drinks, being
deceived in his taste by the very great sweetness of the draught, may
incautiously meet with his death. One of the ancients gives us this
advice, “Let no man be called good who mixes good with
evil.”764
764 Apost.
Constitutions, vi. 13. | For they speak of Christ, not that
they may preach Christ, but that they may reject Christ; and they
speak765
765 Supplied from the
old Latin version. | of the law, not that they may establish
the law, but that they may proclaim things contrary to it. For they
alienate Christ from the Father, and the law from Christ. They also
calumniate His being born of the Virgin; they are ashamed of His cross;
they deny His passion; and they do not believe His resurrection. They
introduce God as a Being unknown; they suppose Christ to be unbegotten;
and as to the Spirit, they do not admit that He exists. Some of them say
that the Son is a mere man, and that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are
but the same person, and that the creation is the work of God, not by
Christ, but by some other strange power.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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