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C. XVI. § 105-C. XVII. § 106] MISCELLANIES, BOOK VII.
sort, 'I shall know whether ye take a just pride in knowledge.'
For, as David says, In Judah is God known1, i.e. to those who are Israelites according to knowledge. For Judah is by interpretation ' Confession.'
With reason therefore has it been said by the Apostle This, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other command, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.2 For we must never adulterate the truth, nor steal the rule of the Church, as those who follow the heresies, gratifying our own desires and ambitions with a view to the deception of our neighbours, whom we ought to love above every thing and teach to cling to the truth itself. At any rate it has been expressly said, Tell among the heathen His doings3, in order that those who have been thus forewarned may not be judged, but may be converted. But as many as flatter with their tongues* have their punishments prescribed.
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§ 106. They then who engage in impious words and introduce them to others, and make no good use, but an utterly wrong use, of the divine words, such men neither enter themselves into the kingdom of God, nor permit5 those whom they have deceived to attain to the truth. Nay, they have not even got the keys of the door themselves, but only a false or, as it is commonly called, a skeleton key, which does not enable them to throw open the main door7, and enter, as we do, through the tradition of the Lord; but they cut a side door and break secretly through the wall of the Church; and so overstepping the bounds of truth, they initiate the soul of the impious into their mysteries. For it needs no long discourse to prove that the merely human assemblies which they have
1 Ps. lxxvi. 1.
2 Rom. xiii. 9.
3 Ps. ix. 11.
4 Ps. v. 9.
5 Mt. xxiii. 14.
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