{"id":99746,"date":"2021-02-23T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99746"},"modified":"2021-02-23T06:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:38:20","slug":"john-and-polycarp-on-heretics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99746","title":{"rendered":"John and Polycarp on Heretics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“There are those who have heard [Polycarp] tell how when John the disciple of the Lord went to bathe at Ephesus, and saw Cerinthus inside, he rushed out of the bath without washing, but crying out, ‘Let us escape, lest the bath should fall while Cerinthus the enemy of the truth is in it.’ Polycarp himself, when Marcion once met him and said, ‘Do you know us?’ answered, ‘I know you, the first-born of Satan.’ The apostles and their disciples took such great care not even to engage in conversations with the corrupters of the truth, as Paul also said, ‘A heretical man [(\u1f01\u03b9\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f78\u03bd \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd)] after a first and second warning avoid, knowing that such a man has fallen away and is a sinner, being self-condemned.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–Irenaeus, Against heresies 3.3.4<\/p>\n

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Today is the commemoration of St Polycarp, one of the Apostolic Fathers, who was martyred c. 155. This beautiful 6th-century depiction of the Saint is from Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna. https:\/\/t.co\/lQAsUuSxgy<\/a><\/p>\n

— Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. (@LawrenceOP) February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n