Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 03 — Section 2139
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 3
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 3
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44. You do all this, you know well enough, laughing at us in your sleeve: and you profess penitence merely to deceive those to whom you write. Even if your penitence is sincere, as it should be, what is to become of all those souls who for so many years have been led astray by this poisonous doctrine as you call it which you then professed. Besides, who will ever mend his ways on account of your penitence, when that very document, in which you are at once the penitent, the accuser and the judge, sends your readers back to those same doctrines as those which they are to read and to hold…
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