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Chapter 10: Beware of Converting to Judaism.
LET US NOT: therefore, be indifferent to His kindness. For if He were to reward us according to our works, we would cease to exist. For “if You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?” Let us therefore prove ourselves worthy of the name we have received. For whoever is called by any other name besides this, is not of God; for he has not received the prophecy which speaks about us: “The people shall be called by a new name, which the Lord will name them, and they shall be a holy people.” This was first fulfilled in Syria; for “the disciples were called Christians at Antioch,” when Paul and Peter were laying the foundations of the Church. Lay aside, therefore, the evil, the old, the corrupt leaven, and be changed into the new leaven of grace. Abide in Christ, so that the stranger may not have dominion over you. It is absurd to speak of Jesus Christ with the tongue, and to harbor in the mind a Judaism which has now ended. For where there is Christianity, there cannot be Judaism. For Christ is one, in whom every nation that believes, and every tongue that confesses, is gathered unto God. And those with a stony heart have become the children of Abraham, the friend of God; and in his seed all those have been blessed who were ordained to eternal life in Christ.