2 Timothy 3:5 Douay-Rheims

Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

Cosmas Indicopleustes

c. A.D. 550 Patristic

But if, again, they say that as being uncircumscribed it pervades all things both within and without, let them not blind themselves to the fact that they are both introducing polytheism and imagining an equality with God. For this property pertains to none except the uncreated Deity who created and fashioned the universe. So then, professing themselves to be wise, they become fools, as says the blessed Paul the Apostle, having changed the glory of the uncircumscribed Deity to their own created souls, thus appropriating to themselves the glory due to God. They must therefore in every way be avoided. For, saith the Apostle, from those turn away who hold an outward form of godliness but deny the power thereof.

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on 2Tim 3:5 (The Christian Topography, Book 1)

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