Chapter I.—Cautions against error.
The Lord has rendered my bonds light and easy since I learnt that you are in peace, that
you live in all harmony both of the flesh and spirit. “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,735
beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,”736 guarding
against those heresies of the wicked one which have broken in upon us, to the deceiving
and destruction of those that accept of them; but that ye give heed to the doctrine of the
apostles, and believe both the law and the prophets: that ye reject every Jewish and Gentile
error, and neither introduce a multiplicity of gods, nor yet deny Christ under the pretence
of [maintaining] the unity of God.
735 Literally, “in the Lord.”
736 Eph. iv. 1.
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Chapter I.—Cautions against error.