The Holy Scripture
Ignatius to the Trallians
Chapter VI
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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:
Παρακαλῶ οὖν ὑμᾶς, οὐκ ἐγώ, ἀλλ̓ ἡ ἀγάπη Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ: μόνῃ τῇ χριστιανῇ τροφῇ χρῆσθε, ἀλλοτρίας δὲ βοτάνης ἀπέχεσθε, ἥτις ἐστὶν αἵρεσις:
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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.