“For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;” 377
and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, 378
is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan. 379
Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from 380
the beginning; “watching unto prayer,” 381
and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God “not to lead us into temptation,” 382
Literally, “the martyrdom of the cross,” which some render, “His suffering on the cross.”
34:379[The original, perhaps, of Eusebius (Hist. iv. cap. 14). It became a common-place expression in the Church.]
34:380Comp. Jude 3.
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