Chapter V.—Denunciation of false teachers. Whosoever, therefore, declares that there is but one God, only so as to take away the divinity of Christ, is a devil,755 and an enemy of all righteousness. He also that confesseth Christ, yet not as the Son of the Maker of the world, but of some other unknown756 being, different from Him whom the law and the prophets have proclaimed, this man is an instru- ment of the devil. And he that rejects the incarnation, and is ashamed of the cross for which I am in bonds, this man is antichrist.757 Moreover, he who affirms Christ to be a mere man is accursed, according to the [declaration of the] prophet,758 since he puts not his trust in God, but in man. Wherefore also he is unfruitful, like the wild myrtle-tree. 755 Comp. John vi. 70. Some read, “the son of the devil.” 756 Or, “that cannot be known.” 757 Comp. 1 John ii. 22, 1 John iv. 3; 2 John 7. 758 Jer. xvii. 5. Chapter V.—Denunciation of false teachers. 296 Chapter V.—Denunciation of false teachers.