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27. Conclusion.
Thus each surpasses the other in his own peculiar
vices. But there is a common blot that attaches to them all, in that
through their heresy they are enemies of Christ, and are no longer called Christians1508
| 1508 Vid.
supr. Ep. Æg. 20 infr. Hist. Arian. §§17.
34 fin. 41 init. 59 fin. 64 init. De. Decr. 16, note
5. | , but Arians. They ought indeed to accuse
each other of the sins they are guilty of, for they are contrary to the
faith of Christ; but they rather conceal them for their own sakes. And
it is no wonder, that being possessed of such a spirit, and implicated
in such vices, they persecute and seek after those who follow not the
same impious heresy as themselves; that they delight to destroy them,
and are grieved if they fail of obtaining their desires, and think
themselves injured, as I said before, when they see those alive whom
they wish to perish. May they continue to be injured in such sort, that
they may lose the power of inflicting injuries, and that those whom
they persecute may give thanks unto the Lord, and say in the words of
the twenty-sixth Psalm, ‘The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom then shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom
then shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes,
came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell1509
;’ and again the thirtieth Psalm,
‘Thou hast saved my soul from adversities; thou hast not shut me
up into the hands of mine enemies; thou hast set my foot in a large
room1510
’ in Christ Jesus our Lord, through
whom to the Father in the Holy Spirit be glory and power for ever and
ever. Amen.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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