For some are in the habit of carrying about the name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked guile, while yet they practise things unworthy of God, whom ye must flee as ye would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom ye must be on your guard, inasmuch as they are men who can scarcely be cured. There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first possible and then impossible,—534 even Jesus Christ our Lord.
But some most worthless persons are in the
habit of carrying about the name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked guile, while yet
they practise things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the
doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit
to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts. For “the righteous man
who avoids them is saved for ever; but the destruction of the ungodly is
sudden, and a subject of rejoicing.”535 For “they are dumb dogs,
that cannot bark,”536 raving mad, and biting
secretly, against whom ye must be on your guard, since they labour under an
incurable disease. But our Physician is the only true God, the unbegotten
and unapproachable, the Lord of all, the Father and Begetter of the
only-begotten Son. We have also as a Physician the Lord our God, Jesus the
Christ, the only-begotten Son and Word, before time began,537 but who afterwards became
also man, of Mary the virgin. For “the Word was made flesh.”538 Being incorporeal, He was in
the body; being impassible, He was in a passible body; being immortal, He was
in a mortal body; being life, He became subject to corruption, that He might
free our souls from death and corruption, and heal them, and might restore them
to health, when they were diseased with ungodliness and wicked lusts.
534 This
clause is wanting in the Greek, and has been supplied from the ancient Latin
version.
537 Or, “before the ages.”
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