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Chapter
IV.—Ignorance the Mother of Evils.
“From753
| 753 [Chaps. 4, 5,
resemble somewhat Homily X. 2, which contains a preliminary discourse
of the Apostle to his followers.—R.] | all these
things, therefore, it is concluded that all evil springs from
ignorance; and ignorance herself, the mother of all evils, is sprung
from carelessness and sloth, and is nourished, and increased, and
rooted in the senses of men by negligence; and if any one teach that
she is to be put to flight, she is with difficulty and indignantly torn
away, as from an ancient and hereditary abode. And therefore we
must labour for a little, that we may search out the presumptions of
ignorance, and cut them off by means of knowledge, especially in those
who are preoccupied with some erroneous opinions, by means of which
ignorance is the more firmly rooted in them, as under the appearance of
a certain kind of knowledge; for nothing is worse than for one to
believe that he knows what he is ignorant of, and to maintain that to
be true which is false. This is as if a drunk man should think
himself to be sober, and should act indeed in all respects as a
drunk man, and yet think himself to be sober, and should wish to
be called so by others. Thus, therefore, are those also who do
not know what is true, yet hold some appearance of knowledge, and do
many evil things as if they were good, and hasten destruction as if it
were to salvation.
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