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Epistle to the Smyrnaeans (Long Version)
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Chapter 4: Beware of These Heretics
I GIVE YOU THESE INSTRUCTIONS: beloved, assured that you also hold the same opinions as I do. But I warn you beforehand about these beasts in the shape of men, from whom you must not only turn away, but even flee. You must pray for them, if by any means they may be brought to repentance. For if the Lord were in the body in appearance only, and were crucified in appearance only, then am I also bound in appearance only. And why have I surrendered myself to death, to fire, to the sword, to the wild beasts? But, in fact, I endure all things for Christ, not in appearance only, but in reality, that I may suffer together with Him, while He Himself inwardly strengthens me; for of myself I have no such ability.