Notorious, too, are the dealings of heretics with swarms of magicians and charlatans and astrologers and philosophers - all, of course, devotees of speculation. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. (Tertullian)

Notorious, too, are the dealings of heretics with swarms of magicians and charlatans and astrologers and philosophers - all, of course, devotees of speculation. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

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