and of the Sadducees" ; and " Into the cities of the Samaritans enter not," Matt. x. 5 (S. + but the cities of the Samaritans are of heresies), which walk in a crooked way (S. + of which He spake in the Proverbs, "there is a way that men think *fov. straight"), "and its end leadeth lower than Sheol." These are they against Xvi. 25 whom our Lord decreed severely and bitterly, and said, "They shall not be Matt. xii. forgiven, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come," (S. + for because of the Nation which did not believe in the Christ, and laid hands upon Him, on the Son of man, that laid hands on Him blaspheming ; and our Lord said, " It shall be forgiven unto them " ; and again our Lord said about them, "My Father, they know not what they do, nor what they Lukexxiii. speak ; if it be possible, forgive them " ; but again also the Gentiles blaspheme against the Son of man, because of the Cross, and to them he hath also given forgiveness), to those who believed (S. + of the Nation or) of the Gentiles by means of baptism, and blasphemed, He hath not given the pardon of their wicked deeds, as the Lord the Christ hath said, " Wherefore Matt- xii-