but that you should regard them as your enemies, and separate yourselves from them, while
yet you admonish them, and exhort them to repentance, if it may be they will hear, if it may
be they will submit themselves. For our God is a lover of mankind, and “will have all men
to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”420 Wherefore “He makes His sun
to rise upon the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust;”421
of whose kindness the Lord, wishing us also to be imitators, says, “Be ye perfect, even as
also your Father that is in heaven is perfect.”422
420 1 Tim. ii. 4.
421 Matt. v. 45.
422 Matt. v. 48.
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Chapter III.—Avoid schismatics.