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Wherefore, as children of light and truth, flee from division and wicked doctrines; but
where the shepherd is, there do ye as sheep follow. For there are many wolves that appear
worthy of credit, who, by means of a pernicious pleasure, carry captive408 those that are
running towards God; but in your unity they shall have no place.
Wherefore, as children of light and truth, avoid the dividing of your unity, and the
wicked doctrine of the heretics, from whom “a defiling influence has gone forth into all the
earth.”409 But where the shepherd is, there do ye as sheep follow. For there are many wolves
in sheep’s clothing,410 who, by means of a pernicious pleasure, carry captive411 those that
are running towards God; but in your unity they shall have no place.
408 Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 6.
409 Jer. xxiii. 15.
410 Comp. Matt. vii. 15.
411 Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 6.
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