Various Church Fathers
Chapter XIX. What we ought to learn from these Examples.
The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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What we ought to learn from these Examples.
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[47.] It behoves us, then, to give heed to these instances from Church History, so many and so great, and others of the same description, and to understand distinctly, in accordance with the rule laid down in Deuteronomy, that if at any time a Doctor in the Church have erred from the faith, Divine Providence permits it in order to make trial of us, whether or not we love God with all our heart and with all our mind.
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf211.division.iii.en.