have sinned, but harshly and mercilessly hide repentance from them, thou wilt even be a helper in their conversion to evil, and in scattering the flocks to be food for the beasts of the field, that is to say, to the wicked men of this world, but not to men in truth, but to the beasts, to the heathen, to the heretics ; for him who goes out of the Church they follow immediately, like evil beasts, to swallow him for food ; because of thine own harshness, he then that goeth out of the Church, 'either goeth and entereth in unto the heathen, or plunges into heresies ; he will be entirely a stranger, and be removed from the Church, and from the hope of God, and thou wilt be guilty of his ruin, because thou wert ready to put out and to cast away those who sin ; and when they repented and returned, thou didst not wish to receive them. Behold, thou art fallen under the condemnation of this word which said, " Your feet hasten to