| Titus 3:10
| A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:
| A man that is, etc. Many ancient copies have this passage thus, Avoid a heretic after one reprehension. St. Irenaeus, Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Ambrose, etc. and many ancient Greek copies, omit a second reprehension. They thought once warning a heretic sufficient; a second correction only served to render him more insolent, and more obstinate in his false opinions. Certainly the faith of Christ has been so firmly established, that a man instructed in Scripture and tradition cannot conscientiously remain a heretic; he must be well aware of the crime of disunion; his own judgment, as St. Paul says, must condemn him.
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