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Chapter LVIII.—And raise up heretics.
And, as we said
before, the devils put forward Marcion of Pontus, who is even now
teaching men to deny that God is the maker of all things in heaven and on
earth, and that the Christ predicted by the prophets is His Son, and
preaches another god besides the Creator of all, and likewise another
son. And this man many have believed, as if he alone knew the truth, and
laugh at us, though they have no proof of what they say, but are carried
away irrationally as lambs by a wolf, and become the prey of atheistical
doctrines, and of devils. For they who are called devils attempt nothing
else than to seduce men from God who made them, and from Christ His
first-begotten; and those who are unable to raise themselves above the
earth they have riveted, and do now rivet, to things earthly, and to the
works of their own hands; but those who devote themselves to the
contemplation of things divine, they secretly beat back; and if they have
not a wise sober-mindedness, and a pure and passionless life, they drive
them into godlessness. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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