Glorious Body of Christ
April 8, 2020
[The spiritual man] shall also judge those who give rise to schisms, who are destitute of the love of God, and who look to their own special advantage rather than to the unity of the Church; and who for trifling reasons, or any kind of reason which occurs to them, cut in pieces and divide the great and glorious body of Christ, and so far as in them lies, destroy it, men who prate of peace while they give rise to war, and do in truth ―strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel‖ (Mat 23:24). For no reformation of so great importance can be effected by them, as will compensate for the mischief arising from their schism.
St Irenaeus of Lyons
Against Heresies, IV, 33, 7.
ANF, I, 508.
