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THE COMMONITORY OF ST. VINCENT OF LERINS:
Chapter Nineteen

Translated by Rev. C. A. Heurtley

CHAPTER XIX

What we ought to learn from these Examples

IT behoves us, then, to give heed to these instances from Church History, so many and so great, and others of the same description, and to understand distinctly, in accordance with the rule laid down Deuteronomy, that if at any time a Doctor in the Church have erred from the faith, Divine Providence permits it in order to make trial of us, whether or not we love God with all our heart and with all our mind.

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The St. Pachomius Orthodox Library, Sts. Athanasius and Cyril 2001.

Have mercy, O Lord, upon Thy servants, the translator Charles, the priest John, the deacon Vladimir, and the websexton Benjamin!

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THE END, AND TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

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