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no foothold among you. The fact is, you have nothing more to learn from anyone, since you listen" to Jesus Christ who speaks truthfully.
7. Some there are, you know, accustomed with vicious guile to go about with the Name on their lips, while they indulge in certain practices at variance with it and an insult to God. These you must shun as you would wild beasts: they are rabid dogs that bite in secret; you must beware of them, for they are hard to cure.
2 There is only one Physician, both carnal and spiritual,"* born and unborn,** God become man, true life in death; sprung both from Mary and from God, first subject to suffering and then incapable of it—
Jesus Christ Our Lord.
8. Let no one, then, deceive you, as indeed you are not being deceived, belonging wholly to God. For as long as no dissension calculated to plague you has taken firm root among you, it follows that you are leading a life conformable to God.
Your lowliest servant," I also consecrate myself to you Ephesians—that Church whose renown will go down the ages. 2 The carnal cannot live a spiritual life,** nor can the spiritual live a carnal life, any more than faith can act the part of infidelity, or infidelity the part of faith. But even the things you do in the flesh are spiritual, for you do all things in union with Jesus Christ.
9. I have heard of certain persons from elsewhere passing through, whose doctrine was bad. These you did not permit to sow their seed among you; you stopped your ears, so as not to receive the seed sown by them. You consider yourselves stones of the Father's temple, prepared for the edifice of God the Father, to be taken aloft by the hoisting engine of Jesus
Christ, that is, the Cross, while the Holy Spirit serves you as