Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics neither ought their existence to surprise us, for it was foretold that they should come to pass;[3] Dubious Hippolytus Fragments And there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies."[32] Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV Before all things, it is befitting that we should know both that He Himself and His ambassadors foretold that there must be numerous sects and heresies,[405]