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Which way do you wish to be?

September 25, 2014

Which way do you wish to be?

The Beginning of Evils

by St. Ignatius of Antioch

They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes. But it were better for them to treat it with respect, that they also might rise again.

It is fitting, therefore, that ye should keep aloof from such persons, and not to speak of them either in private or in public, but to give heed to the prophets, and above all, to the Gospel, in which the passion of Christ has been revealed to us, and the resurrection has been fully proved.

But avoid all divisions, as the beginning of evils.

– St. Ignatius, Letter to the Smyrnaeans (ca. 105)

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