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1 2| BRAND THE CHRISTIANS AS SIMPLE PERSONS. THE CHARGE ACCEPTED, 2 2| we are branded by them as simple, and as being merely so, 3 2| therefore wise as serpents, and simple as doves." Now if we, on 4 2| accounted foolish because we are simple, does it then follow that 5 2| follow that they are not simple because they are wise? Most 6 2| however, are they who are not simple, even as they are most foolish 7 2| other words, they were not simple. The apostle, too, bids 8 3| DEITY. CONTRASTED WITH THE SIMPLE WISDOM OF TRUE RELIGION. 9 3| Of our dove, however, how simple is the very home! always 10 3| us, however, who are the simple folk, we know all about 11 7| the Valentinion gods, the simple originals of heretical sanctity