Let Us Flee for the Enemy of Truth Is Inside
By Karl Keating
In the third book of his Ecclesiastical History (written around 325), Eusebius says that in the earliest days the Church remained a pure and uncorrupted virgin, for those who attempted to corrupt the healthful rule of the Saviors preaching, if they existed at all, lurked in obscure darkness. It wasnt long, though, before enemiesinternal and externalmade themselves known.
When the sacred band of the apostles and the generation of those to whom it had been vouchsafed to hear with their own ears the divine wisdom had reached the several ends of their lives, then the federation of godless error took its beginning through the deceit of false teachers who, seeing that none of the apostles still remained, barefacedly tried against the preaching of the truth the counter-proclamation of knowledge falsely so-called....
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By Karl Keating
In the third book of his Ecclesiastical History (written around 325), Eusebius says that in the earliest days the Church remained a pure and uncorrupted virgin, for those who attempted to corrupt the healthful rule of the Saviors preaching, if they existed at all, lurked in obscure darkness. It wasnt long, though, before enemiesinternal and externalmade themselves known.
When the sacred band of the apostles and the generation of those to whom it had been vouchsafed to hear with their own ears the divine wisdom had reached the several ends of their lives, then the federation of godless error took its beginning through the deceit of false teachers who, seeing that none of the apostles still remained, barefacedly tried against the preaching of the truth the counter-proclamation of knowledge falsely so-called....
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