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Chapter 7: Let's Stay Away from Such Heretics.
They are ashamed of the cross; they mock the passion; they make a joke of the resurrection. They are the offspring of that spirit who is the author of all evil, who led Adam, through his wife, to transgress the commandment, who killed Abel by the hands of Cain, who fought against Job, who was the accuser of Joshua the son of Josedech, who sought to "sift the faith" of the apostles, who stirred up the multitude of the Jews against the Lord, who also now "works in the children of disobedience; from whom the Lord Jesus Christ will deliver us, who prayed that the faith of the apostles might not fail, not because He was unable to preserve it Himself, but because He rejoiced in the pre-eminence of the Father. It is fitting, therefore, that you should keep away from such persons, and neither in private nor in public talk with them; but pay attention to the law, and the prophets, and to those who have preached to you the word of salvation. But flee from all abominable heresies, and those that cause divisions, as the beginning of evils.