less than the Jews who killed Christ. If any one confesses these things, and that God the Word did dwell in a human body, being within it as the Word, even as the soul also is in the body, because it was God that inhabited it, and not a human soul, but affirms that un- lawful unions are a good thing, and places the highest happiness453 in pleasure, as does the man who is falsely called a Nicolaitan, this person can neither be a lover of God, nor a lover of Christ, but is a corrupter of his own flesh, and therefore void of the Holy Spirit, and a stranger to Christ. All such persons are but monuments and sepulchres of the dead, upon which are written only the names of dead men. Flee, therefore, the wicked devices and snares of the spirit which now worketh in the children of this world,454 lest at any time being overcome,455 ye grow weak in your love. But be ye all joined together456 with an undivided heart and a willing mind, “being of one accord and of one judgment,”457 being always of the same opinion about the same things, both when you are at ease and in danger, both in sorrow and in joy. I thank God, through Jesus Christ, that I have a good conscience in respect to you, and that no one has it in his power to boast, either privately or publicly, that I have burdened any one either in much or in little. And I wish for all among whom I have spoken, that they may not possess that for a testimony against them. 453 Literally, “the end of happiness.” 454 Comp. Eph. ii. 2. 455 Literally, “oppressed.” 456 Some render, “come together into the same place.” 457 Phil. ii. 2. 218 Chapter VI.—Do not accept Judaism.