{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2012","native_reference":{"book_number":700,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Since it is written that we should avoid such people, how can we not assume that someone who associates with Arians is also an exponent of their heresy?<br/><i>— Synod LETTERS 40</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, etc. John speaks thus about schismatics or heretics to be detested, what he taught in words, he also practiced in deeds. For his most holy listener and strongest martyr Polycarp, the bishop of the Smyrnaeans, recounts that at a certain time, while he had entered the baths at Ephesus for the sake of washing, and had seen Cerinthus there, he immediately jumped out and left without washing, saying: \"Let us flee from here, lest even the baths collapse in which Cerinthus, the enemy of truth, is bathing.\" The same Polycarp also, when he once met Marcion, who said to him: \"Recognize us,\" he replied: \"I recognize, I recognize the firstborn of Satan.\" Such caution did the apostles and their disciples use in religion at that time, that they would not permit even a word's communion with any of those who had deviated from the truth; as Paul also says: A man that is heretical, after a first and second admonition, avoid, knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned (Tit. III).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: He says, \"If any come unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed; for he that bids him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.\" He forbids us to salute such, and to receive them to our hospitality. For this is not harsh in the case of a man of this sort. But he admonishes them neither to confer nor dispute with such as are not able to handle divine things with intelligence, lest through them they be seduced from the doctrine of truth, influenced by plausible reasons. Now, I think that we are not even to pray with such, because in the prayer which is made at home, after rising from prayer, the salutation of joy is also the token of peace.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: Also another Aurelius of Chullabi said: John the apostle laid it down in his epistle, saying: \"If any one come unto you, and have not the doctrine of Christ, receive him not into your house, and say not to him, Hail. For he that saith to him, Hail, partakes with his evil deeds.\" How can such be rashly admitted into God's house, who are prohibited from being admitted into our private dwelling? Or how can we hold communion with them without the Church's baptism, to whom, if we should only say Hail, we are partakers of their evil deeds?<br/><i>— The Seventh Council of Carthage Under Cyprian</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: Here you see an example of excommunication in the New Testament, both from table fellowship at home and from table fellowship in church.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 JOHN</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: But as many as separate from the Church, and give heed to such old wives' fables as these, are truly self-condemned; and these men Paul commands us, \"after a first and second admonition, to avoid.\" And John, the disciple of the Lord, has intensified their condemnation, when he desires us not even to address to them the salutation of \"good-speed;\" for, says he, \"He that bids them be of good-speed is a partaker with their evil deeds;\" and that with reason, \"for there is no good-speed to the ungodly,\" saith the Lord.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book I</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house, nor greet him. For he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.<br/>\"If anyone comes to you\" (2 Jn. 10) confirms those to whom he writes. If anyone, he says, comes to you without this confession, not only will he not receive protection from you, but he will also not receive the prayer for salvation from you, rightly and cautiously saying this, as if this prayer for salvation is owed only to those who agree with us in morals and faith. For whom do we pray for salvation, except for those who are of similar morals and faith? Therefore, if such a prayer for salvation is offered by us to the wicked, it is certainly presented as if it were offered to the faithful and those of similar morals, and thus they have been accepted as companions by us, and they have dragged us down to their abyss.<br/><i>— Commentary on 2 John</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Although we ought to be seeking at all times, where ought we to seek? Among the heretics, where all is foreign and opposed to our truth, with whom we are forbidden to associate?<br/><i>— ON THE PRESCRIPTION OF HERETICS 14.12</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"24592ccd15a8ce8df82fff5bcf6c988718807e4e44e6113518a63511150d9247","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2012,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"82aba925c99f0288654a61c186c92cfcbc377908492c93414276ea47fd9f19e2","translator":null,"work":null}