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Chapter XXXV.—False
Apostles.
“Wherefore observe the greatest caution,
that you believe no teacher, unless he bring from Jerusalem the
testimonial of James the Lord’s brother, or of whosoever may come
after him.746
| 746 [This is peculiar in
this connection. There is, at least, a suggestion of anti-Pauline
spirit in its teaching.—R.] | For no one,
unless he has gone up thither, and there has been approved as a fit and
faithful teacher for preaching the word of Christ,—unless, I say,
he brings a testimonial thence, is by any means to be received.
But let neither prophet nor apostle be looked for by you at this time,
besides us. For there is one true Prophet, whose words we twelve
apostles preach; for He is the accepted year of God, having us apostles
as His twelve months. But for what reason the world itself was
made, or what diversities have occurred in it, and why our Lord, coming
for its restoration, has chosen and sent us twelve apostles, shall be
explained more at length at another time. Meantime He has
commanded us to go forth to preach, and to invite you to the supper of
the heavenly King, which the Father hath prepared for the marriage of
His Son, and that we should give you wedding garments, that is, the
grace of baptism;747
which whosoever
obtains, as a spotless robe with which he is to enter to the supper of
the King, ought to beware that it be not in any part of it stained with
sin, and so he be rejected as unworthy and
reprobate.
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