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De lapsis (PL)

XXXIV.

Ejusmodi homines quantum potestis effugite, perniciosis contactibus adhaerentes salubri cautione vitate. Sermo eorum sicut cancer serpit, colloquium velut contagium transilit, noxia et venenata persuasio persecutione ipsa pejus interficit. Illic superest poenitentia quae satisfaciat; qui autem poenitentiam criminis tollunt, satisfactionis viam claudunt. Ita fit ut, dum temeritate quorumdam vel promittitur salus falsa vel creditur, spes verae salutis adimatur.

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On the Lapsed

34.

Flee from such men as much as you can; avoid with a wholesome caution those who adhere to their mischievous contact. Their word doth eat as doth a cancer; ¹ their conversation advances like a contagion; their noxious and envenomed persuasion kills worse than persecution itself. In such a case there remains only penitence which can make atonement. But they who take away repentance for a crime, close the way of atonement. Thus it happens that, while by the rashness of some a false safety is either promised or trusted, the hope of true safety is taken away.