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A man that is heretical after a first and second admonition refuse; knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned
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But as many as _fall away from_ (ἀφίστανται, 1 Tim. iv. 1)
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(γραώδεσι μύθοις, 1 Tim. iv. 7),
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(αὐτοκατάκριτοι, Tit. iii. 1):
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(_Adv. Hær._, I. xvi. 3). It will be observed that in this passage Irenæus makes an obvious allusion to the First Epistle to Timothy, and then quotes the very words of our text, attributing them expressly to St. Paul. And about ten or twelve years later, Tertullian, after commenting on St. Paul's words to the Corinthians,
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For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you (1 Cor. xi. 19), continues as follows:
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But no more about that, seeing that it is the same Paul who elsewhere also in writing to the Galatians reckons heresies among sins of the flesh (Gal. v. 20), and who intimates to Titus that a _man who is heretical must after a first[84] admonition be refused, because he that is such is perverted and sinneth as being self-condemned_. But in almost every Epistle, when insisting on the duty of avoiding false doctrines, he censures heresies of which the practical results are false doctrines, called in Greek _heresies_, with reference to the _choice_ which a man exercises, whether in instituting or in adopting them. For this reason he says that the heretical person is also self-condemned, because he has chosen for himself that in which he is condemned. We, however, may not allow ourselves anything after our own will; nor yet choose what any one has introduced of his own will. The Apostles of the Lord are our authorities: and even they did not choose to introduce anything of their own will, but faithfully consigned to the nations the instruction which they received from Christ. And so, even if an angel from heaven were to preach any other gospel, he would be called accursed by us (_De Præs. Hær._, vi). In this passage, which contains a valuable comment on the meaning of the word