Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 223
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I
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themselves are now lamenting in Hades, and repenting with a too late repentance ; and if it were possible for them to show you thence what had befallen them after the termination of this life, ye would know from what fearful ills they desired to deliver you. But now, since it is not possible in this present life that ye either learn from them, or from those who here profess to teach that philosophy which is falsely so called, it follows as the one thing that remains for you to do, that, renouncing the error of your fathers, ye read the prophecies of the sacred writers," not requiri…
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