Flee, therefore, those evil offshoots
[of Satan], which produce death-
bearing fruit, whereof if any one
tastes, he instantly dies. For these
men are not the planting of the Father.
For if they were, they would appear
as branches of the cross, and their
fruit would be incorruptible. By it "^
He calls you through His passiorr, as
being His members. The head, there-
fore, cannot be born by itself, without
its members ; God, who is [the Sav-
iour] Himself, having promised their