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1 2 | DERIVED FROM WEAKNESS OF MEN'S FAITH. THEY HAVE NOT THE 2 2 | extirpation in our power. Some men prefer wondering at heresies, 3 2 | would have no power, if (men) would cease to wonder that 4 2 | either happens that, while men wonder, they fall into a 5 3 | FRAILTY OF MANKIND. EMINENT MEN HAVE FALLEN FROM FAITH; 6 3 | himself, to the effect that men whom heresies have been 7 3 | small thing, that certain men, like Phygellus, and Hermogenes, 8 3 | churches forsaken by some men, although the things which 9 4 | now and evermore, but the men who rebel against Christ? 10 5 | inasmuch as heresies sever men from unity no less than 11 5 | with reproofs he exhorts men to turn away from such, 12 7 | These are "the doctrines" of men and "of demons" produced 13 7 | who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building 14 7 | after the tradition of men, and contrary to the wisdom 15 8 | indeed, are set forth for all men; through the ears of the 16 9 | were addressed to all men (equally). Yet even here 17 13| introduce, and which make men heretics.~ 18 14| would it be to agree with men who do themselves confess 19 14| object of inquiry. When men, therefore, are not Christians 20 19| down that rule, by which men become Christians?" For 21 23| brethren--to them, indeed, by men who had put on faith from 22 25| did not reveal all to all men, for that they proclaimed 23 25| these things to faithful men, who should be able to teach 24 26| resurrection before all men, (and) another before the 25 26| their epistles, besought men that they would all speak 26 27| failed to make known to all men the entire rule of faith, 27 28| casualty distributed among many men issues in one and the same 28 29| gospel was wrongly preached; men wrongly believed; so many 29 29| be heresies against which men would have to guard! To 30 30| whilst they used to raise men to life from the dead, these 31 30| the dead, these consign men to death from their living 32 32| apostles or of apostolic men,--a man, moreover, who continued 33 32| self-contradictory, so the apostolic men would not have inculcated 34 32| from apostles or apostolic men (as being of much later 35 33| he inveighs against such men as observed and defend circumcision 36 41| office; at another time, men who are bound to some secular 37 43| reason is, that they are men who devote themselves to