Chapter VI.—Renewed cautions. These things I write to you, thou new olive-tree of Christ, not that I am aware you hold any such opinions, but that I may put you on your guard, as a father does his children. Be- ware, therefore, of those that hasten to work mischief, those “enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose glory is in their shame.”759 Beware of those “dumb dogs,” those trailing serpents, those scaly760 dragons, those asps, and basilisks, and scorpions. For these are subtle wolves,761 and apes that mimic the appearance of men. 759 Phil. iii. 18, 19. 760 The text is here doubtful. 761 Literally, “fox-like thoes,” lynxes being perhaps intended. Chapter VI.—Renewed cautions. 297 Chapter VI.—Renewed cautions.