These, brethren, are the mysteries of the
Church; these are the
traditions of the Fathers. Every man who fears the Lord,
and is awaiting God’s judgment, I charge not to be carried
away by various doctrines. If any one teaches a different
doctrine, and refuses to accede to the sound words of the faith,
rejecting the oracles of the Spirit, and making his own teaching
of more authority than the lessons of the Gospels, of such an one
beware. May the Lord grant that one day we may meet, so
that all that my argument has let slip I may supply when we stand
face to face! I have written little when there was much to
say, for I did not like to go beyond my letter’s
bounds. At the same time I do not doubt that to all that
fear the Lord a brief reminder is enough.