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IgnTrall. 6

Ignatius to the Trallians · Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer of Antioch

I exhort you therefore-yet not I, but the love of Jesus Christ-take ye only Christian food, and abstain from strange herbage, which is heresy:

Ign Trall 6.1

for these men do even mingle poison with Jesus Christ, imposing upon others by a show of honesty, like persons administering a deadly drug with honeyed wine, so that one who knoweth it not, fearing nothing, drinketh in death with a baneful delight.

Ign Trall 6.2