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I will return to my argument that truth comes first and falsification afterwards. This finds additional support in the parable where the Lord sows the good wheat-seed first and the enemy, the devil, afterwards adulterates the crop with barren tares. Properly interpreted, this represents the different doctrines, since seed is used as a figure of the word of God in other places as well.

Grant that heretics are not enemies of the truth, grant that
we were not warned to avoid them, what is the good of conferring with men who themselves profess that they are still
seeking? If they are indeed still seeking, they have still found
nothing certain. Whatever they hold is only provisional. Their
continual searching shows up their hesitation.
Detta är ett elegant grepp, som utifrån premisserna fungerar.

Nu hör jag fanatikern: Instruction and destruction never reach us from the same quarter. Light and darkness never come from the same source.
So let us seek in our own territory, from our own friends and on our own business, and let us seek only what can come into question without disloyalty to the Rule of Faith.

att överge hybrisbegreppet är inte bara farligt, utan osmakligt.

However, I shall now make you a present of that point.
Suppose that "Seek, and ye shall find" was said to us all. Even
then it would be wrong to determine the sense without reference to the guiding principles of exegesis. No word of God is so
unqualified or so unrestricted in application that the mere
words can be pleaded without respect to their underlying
meaning.

How can he recognize the door if he has never been
taken in or thrown out by it? Surely it is the man who knows
that he was once inside and was turned out, who recognizes
the door and knocks?

What has Jerusalem to do with Athens, the Church with the Academy, the Christian with the heretic? Our principles come from the Porch of Solomon, who had himself taught that the Lord is to be sought in simplicity of heart. ...When we come to believe, we have
no desire to believe anything else; for we begin by believing
that there is nothing else which we have to believe. farligt men lockande

Tertullianus: påpekande att inte ens david var syndfri, och att dömandet av folk är en mänsklig (i bemärkelsen långt ifrån gudomlig) aktivitet.

Tertullianus: heresi förlorar sin styrka när vi slutar att vara förvånade över den.

Tertullianus: Varför förvånas över heresier, när de var förutsedda, eller av deras kraft, eftersom den är tänkt att testa tron?
Detta påstående kan läsas naivt eller metaforiskt. Den senare läsningen säger att heterodoxi och heresi som fenomen är oundvikliga.