Tanakh (Taurat), the Torah of Moses, the Old Testament in the Christian Bible
DEUTERONOMY
13
CHAPTER XIII.
False prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities
destroyed.
1
If *there rise in the midst of thee a prophet, or one that saith he hath dreamed
a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,
2
And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go, and follow
strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them:
3
Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God
trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and
with all your soul, or not.
4
Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his
voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.
5
And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw
you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which
the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the
midst of thee.
6
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife
that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would
persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou
knowest not, nor thy fathers,
7
Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the
earth to the other,
8
Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and
conceal him,
9
But thou shalt presently put him to death.
*Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the
people.
10
With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee
from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the
house of bondage:
11
That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.
12
If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in,
thou hear some say:
13
Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the
inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods
which you know not:
14
Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing, by looking well into
it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this
abomination hath been really committed,
15
Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the
sword, and shalt destroy it, and all things that are in it, even the cattle:
16
And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the
midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn them with the city itself, so as
to consume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall
be built no more.
17
And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may
turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee
as he swore to thy fathers,
18
When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts,
which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight
of the Lord thy God.
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1: A.M. 2553.
9: Infra xvii. 7.
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Deuteronomy Chapter 13:1-5
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.
This is modified by the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament per His Sermon on the Mount where the violence of the Old Testament is done away with, but the separation from evil and false prophets still remains. Money grubbers are one of the chief forms of false prophets warned of in the Old and New Testaments and that warning is still absolute and in place and will remain in place until the complete consummation of all things and the return of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His eternal judgement of all men raised from the dead by His command and power to be judged by Him. The word "money" occurs in the Old Testament over 150 times and a very real predilection from most ancient times is the obsession of people with it. The word "money" occurs in the New Testament less than thirty times and most always with the warnings not to be concerned with it and use it only when you do use it for the good and charitable purposes that Our Lord Jesus Christ commands it be put to use for. Never are we commended if we strive after money. Honest work is allowed and that only - a fair days wage for a fair days labor.
The New Testament, the Covenant of God with men, in Our Lord Jesus Christ alone, the only Mediator between God and men in the flesh.
WARNINGS
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.THE FALSE PROPHET
Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
MATTHEW 7
CHAPTER VII.
12 *All things, therefore, whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
13 *Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who enter by it.
14 How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way, which leadeth to life: and few there are who find it!
15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the bad tree bringeth forth bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot yield bad fruit, neither can an bad tree yield good fruit.
19 *Every tree that yieldeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 *Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father, who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, *and cast out devils in thy name, and done many wonderful works in thy name?
23 And then will I profess unto them: I never knew you: *depart from me, you that work iniquity.
24 *Every one, therefore, that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock.
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| FALSE PROPHET MONEY GRUBBER BENEDIKTUS THE FALSE - SEE GOLD |
Matthew 24:23 *Then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ, or there: do not believe him.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if it were possible) even the elect.
25 Behold, I have told it to you before hand.
26 If therefore, they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert: go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not.
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verse 23, see Mark xiii. 21.; Luke xvii. 23
LUKE
17
CHAPTER XVII.
20 And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come? he, answering them, said: The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there: for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when you shall desire to see one day of the Son of man, and you shall not see it.
23 *And they will say to you: Lo here, and lo there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:
24 For as the lightening that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.25 But first he must suffer many things, and be rejected by this generation.26 *And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.27 They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.28 *Likewise, as it was in the days of Lot: They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built:29 And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
THE FALSE PROPHET AND ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE NOT TO BE HEEDED NOR GONE INTO - HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM AT ALL IN ANYTHING.
PREACHERS AND TEACHERS OF THE TRUE GOSPEL, WHAT THEY ARE TO DO - IF THE BELOW IS NOT DONE BY ANYONE THEN THEY ARE FALSE PROPHETS
MATTHEW
10
CHAPTER X.
8
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils: gratis you
have received, gratis give.
9
*Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses:
10
Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the
workman is worthy of his meat.
11
And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy:
and there abide till you go thence.
12
And when you come into a house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house.
13
And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it: but if it be not
worthy, your peace shall return to you.
14
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going forth out of
that house, or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
15
Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and
Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
16
*Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and simple
as doves.
17
But beware of men. For they will deliver
you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.
18
And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings, for my sake, for a
testimony to them, and to the Gentiles.
19
But when they shall deliver you up, *be not thoughtful how or what to speak:
for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak.
20
For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in
you.
21
The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son:
and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to
death.
22
And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall
persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.
23
And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all
the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.
24
*The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his
lord. If they have called the master of
the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?
26
Therefore fear them not: *for there is nothing hid, that shall not be revealed:
nor secret, that shall not be known.
27
That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you
hear in the ear, preach ye upon the house-tops.
28
And fear not them that kill the body, and cannot kill the soul: but rather fear
him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29
*Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing: and not one of them shall fall on
the ground without your Father.
30
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31
Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
32
*Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, I will also confess him
before my Father, who is in heaven.
33
But whosoever shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father,
who is in heaven.
34
*Do not think that I am come to send peace upon earth: I came not to send
peace, but the sword.
35
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter
against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36
*And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.
37
*He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that
loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
38
*And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me.
39
He that findeth his life shall lose it: *and he that shall lose his life for my
sake, shall find it.
40
*He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him
that sent me.
41
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward
of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall
receive the reward of a just man.
42
*And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones, a cup of cold
water only in the name of a disciple: Amen, I say to you, he shall not lose his
reward.
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9: Mark vi. 8.; Luke ix. 3. and x. 4.
16: Luke x. 3.
19: Luke xii. 11.
24: Luke vi. 40.; John xiii. 16. and xv. 20.
26: Mark iv. 22.; Luke viii. 17. and xii. 2.
29: 2 Kings xiv. 11.; Acts xxvii. 35.
32: Mark viii. 38.; Luke ix. 36. and xii. 8.; 2
Tim. ii. 12.
34: Luke xii. 51.
36: Mich. vii. 6.
37: Luke xiv. 26.
38: Infra xvi. 24.; Mark viii. 34.
39: Luke xiv. 27.
40: Luke ix. 24. and xvii. 33.; John xiii. 20.
42: Luke x. 16.; Mark ix. 40.
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TITUS 1
CHAPTER I.
6 *If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of luxury, or unruly.
7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy *lucre:
8 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent,
9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine: that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.
10 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:
11 Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy *lucre's sake.
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6: 1 Tim. iii. 2.
lucre = money
MATTHEW
24
CHAPTER XXIV.
Christ foretells the destruction of the temple: with
the signs that shall come before it, and before the last judgment. We must always watch.
21
For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the
beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.
22
And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the
sake of the elect, those days shall be shortened.
23
*Then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ, or there: do not believe
him.
24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great
signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if it were possible) even the elect.
25
Behold, I have told it to you before hand.
26
If therefore, they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert: go ye not out:
Behold he is in the closets, believe it not.
27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth, even unto the west:
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. [The Second Coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]
ISAIAS
24
CHAPTER XXIV.
The judgments of God upon all the sinners of the
world. A remnant shall joyfully praise
him.
1
Behold, the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall
afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2
*And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the
servant, so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as
with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower:
as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.
3
With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled:
for the Lord hath spoken this word.
4
The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the
height of the people of the earth is weakened.
5
And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have
transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the
everlasting covenant.
6
Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall
sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be
left.
7
The vintage hath mourned; the vine hath languished away; all the merry hearted
have sighed.
8
The mirth of timbrels hath ceased; the noise of them that rejoice is ended; the
melody of the harp is silent.
9
They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that
drink it.
10
The city of vanity is broken down; every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
11
There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy
of the earth is gone away.
12
Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
13
For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as
if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive-tree: or
grapes, when the vintage is ended.
14
These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the Lord shall be
glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.
15
Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of
Israel in the islands of the sea.
16
From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just
one. And I said: My secret to myself, my
secret to myself, wo is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the
prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.
17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the
earth.
18
And it shall come to pass, *that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear,
shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be
taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the
foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
19
With breaking shall the earth be broken; with crushing shall the earth be
crushed; with trembling shall the earth be moved.
20
With shaking shall the earth be shaken, as a drunken man, and shall be removed
as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and
it shall fall and not rise again.
21
And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host
of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.
22
And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the
pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall
be visited.
23
*And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts
shall reign in Mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the
sight of his ancients.
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2: Osee iv. 9.
18: Jer. xlviii. 44.
23: Joel ii. 31.; Acts ii. 20.
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The absolutely evil idolatry of mammon totally and absolutely eternally condemned to hell by Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but then codified into their own Satanic religion by the Deicide Perifidous Jews in the Shulchan Aruch.
MATTHEW
6
CHAPTER VI.
Alms, prayer, and fasting recommended, but ostentation
to be avoided. Forgiveness of injuries
urged: simplicity of intention, and greater solicitude for the next than this
life.
20
*But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor the
moth doth consume, and where thieves do not dig through, nor steal.
21
For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.
22
*The light of thy body is thy eye. If
thy eye be simple, thy whole body shall be lightsome.
23
But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body shall be darksome. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be
darkness, how great will the darkness itself be?
24
*No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the
other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25
*Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat,
nor for your body, what you shall put on.
Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
26
Behold the birds of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather
into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
27
And which of you by thinking can add to his stature one cubit?
28
And for raiment why are you solicitous?
Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they labour not, neither
do they spin.
29
Yet I say to you, that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed as one
of these.
30
Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which is to-day, and to-morrow is
cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith?
31
Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink,
or wherewith shall we be clothed?
32
For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of
all these things.
33
Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice: and all these
things shall be added unto you.
34
Be not therefore solicitous for to-morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous
for itself. Sufficient for the day is
the evil thereof.
MATTHEW
19
CHAPTER XIX.
16
And behold one came and said to him: Good Master, what good shall I do that I
may have life everlasting?
17
But he said to him: Why asketh thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments.
18
He saith to him: Which? And Jesus said:
*Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness.
19
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
20
The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth: what is yet
wanting to me?
21
Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast and give to
the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
22
And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great
possessions.
23
Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall
hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24
And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
MATTHEW
22
CHAPTER XXII.
15 Then the Pharisees going away, consulted among themselves how to ensnare him
in his speech.
16
And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we
know that thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth,
neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.
17
Tell us therefore what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Cæsar,
or not?
18
But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?
19
Shew me the coin of the tribute. And
they offered him a penny.
20
And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?
21
They say to him: Cæsar's. Then he saith
to them: *Render therefore to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's: and to God,
the things that are God's.
22
And hearing this, they wondered, and leaving him went their way.
...
35 And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:
36
Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
37
Jesus said to him: *Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and
with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
38
This is the greatest and first commandment.
39
And the second is like to this: *Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
40
On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
41
And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42
Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's.
43
He saith to them: *How then doth David in spirit call him Lord: Saying:
44
*The Lord [God the Father] said to my Lord [the Lord Jesus Christ]: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy
footstool?
45 *If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
46
And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day
forth ask him any more questions.
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44: Psal. cix. 1.
45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? [He is David's son because He was Incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the blessed virgin Mary and born of her upon earth]
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Look up, your redemption is at hand: The Catholic Creed: St. Ignatius to the Ephesians. St. Irenaeus
Ignatius to the Ephesians
Now the virginity of Mary was hidden from the prince of this world, as was also her offspring, and the death of the Lord; three mysteries of renown,(5) which were wrought in silence by(6) God. How, then, was He manifested to the world?(7) A star shone forth in heaven above all the other stars, the light of Which was inexpressible, while its novelty struck men with astonishment. And all the rest of the stars, with the sun and moon, formed a chorus to this star, and its light was exceedingly great above them all. And there was agitation felt as to whence this new spectacle came, so unlike to everything else [in the heavens]. Hence every kind of magic was destroyed, and every bond of wickedness disappeared; ignorance was removed, and the old kingdom abolished, God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life. And now that took a beginning which had been prepared by God. Henceforth all things were in a state of tumult, because He mediated the abolition of death.
But do Thou O Lord have mercy upon us,
Thanks be to God.
Our Help is in the Name of the Lord,
Who made the heavens and the earth.
BOOK I CHAP. X. - UNITY OF THE FAITH OF THE CHURCH
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD. { note that St. Irenaeus is the first to record the creed later called the apostles creed – with a lot more than we usually see }
I. The Church: all true Loving Catholic Apostolic Orthodox true Christian brethren and benefactors each of us holding You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour the Head directly, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith; in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator, Framer, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents and the birth from a virgin, and the passion and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] parousia from heaven in the same flesh in which he suffered, in the glory of the Father, “to gather all things in one,” and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, “every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess” to Him, and that He should execute just judgment towards all; that He may send spiritual wickednesses,” and the angels who transgressed and became apostates, together with the ungodly, and unrighteous, and wicked, and profane among men, into everlasting fire but may, in the exercise of His grace, confer immortality on the righteous, and holy, and those who have kept His commandments, and have persevered in His love, some from the beginning of their Christian course and others from their repentance, and may surround them with everlasting glory.
2. As I have already observed, the Church,
having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if occupying but one house, carefully, preserves it. She also believes these points of doctrine just as if she had but one soul, and one and the same heart, and she proclaims them, and teaches them, and hands them down, with perfect harmony, as if she possessed only one mouth. For, although the languages of the world are dissimilar, yet the import of the tradition is one and the same. For the Churches which have been planted in Germany do not believe or hand down anything different, nor do those in Spain, nor those in Gaul, nor those in the East, nor those in Egypt, nor those in Libya, nor those which have been established in the central regions of the world { Jerusalem, the mother of all the Churches is here referred to }. But as the sun, that creature of God, is one and the same throughout the whole world, so also the preaching of the truth shineth everywhere, and enlightens all men that are willing to come to a knowledge of the truth. Nor will anyone of, the rulers in the Churches, however highly gifted he may be in point of eloquence, teach doctrines different from these (for no one is greater than the Master); nor, on the other hand, will he who is deficient in power of expression inflict injury on the tradition. For the faith being ever one and the same, neither does one who is able at great length to discourse regarding it, make any addition to it, nor does one, who can say but little, diminish it.
3. It does not follow because men are endowed
with greater and less degrees of intelligence, that they should therefore change the subject-matter of the faith itself, and should conceive of some other God, besides Him who is the Creator, Framer, Maker, and Preserver of this universe ( as if He were not sufficient for them ), or of another Christ, or another Only-begotten.
…while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, as we have already said.
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Book 4 Chapter XXVI Section 4.
( Concerning how we act towards heretics – the evolutionary Gnostics )
From all such persons, therefore, it behoves us to keep aloof,…but to adhere to…the doctrine of the Apostles.
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