Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 11 — Chapter I.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 11
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How the errors of later heretics have been condemned and refuted in the persons of their authors and originators. As we began by setting down in the first book some things by which we showed that our new heretic is but an offshoot from ancient stocks of heresy, the due condemnation of the earlier heretics ought to be enough to secure a sentence of due condemnation for him. For as he has the same roots and grows up out of the same fallow [2385] he has already been amply condemned in the persons of his predecessors, especially as those who went wrong immediately before these men very pro…
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