Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter XII.--Exhortation to Abandon Their Old Errors and Listen to the Instructions of Christ.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
Let us then avoid custom as we would a dangerous headland, or the threatening Charybdis, or the mythic sirens. It chokes man, turns him away from truth, leads him away from life: custom is a snare, a gulf, a pit, a mischievous winnowing fan.
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