for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.

I think therefore it is best, considering the present distress, I say, it is best, for a single person to continue so still.

But every one has not this knowledge: for some still imagine the idol represents a deity: and eat the meat under the notion of an offering to such a being: by which erroneous opinion they are infected with idolatry.

the glory of the sun is of one kind, the glory of the moon of another, and the glory of the stars still different; nay, one star differs from another star in glory.