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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
He constantly speaks about the same thing. By the commandment of love he urges toward unity, so that they would not go over to the deceivers. Who already walk about in the world and deny the coming of the Lord in the flesh. By speaking of walking according to the commandment given from the beginning, he shows that the opinion of the erring heretics is new, and he urges the faithful to hold to this original commandment and not be carried away by the deception of heretics. …
Oecumenius
Nor for any other reason was it given from the beginning, John says, except that you might walk in it, revolving and turning the same things in the higher and lower realms: and indeed by love urging them towards inseparability, and that they should not be led away by seducers, who were already walking in the world and rejecting the coming of the Lord in the flesh: but by this that he admonishes to walk according to the Lord's command which was from the beginning, revealing the erroneous opinion of the heretics which is recent: and …
Irenaeus
All, therefore, are outside of the [Christian] dispensation, who, under pretext of knowledge, understand that Jesus was one, and Christ another, and the Only-begotten another, from whom again is the Word, and that the Saviour is another, whom these disciples of error allege to be a production of those who were made Aeons in a state of degeneracy. Such men are to outward appearance sheep; for they appear to be like us, by what they say in public, repeating the same words as we do; but inwardly they are wolves. …
Western Saints
Bede
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, etc. This can also be understood concerning the heretics who indeed confess Jesus Christ incarnate but do not rightly perceive some part of his faith, such as his true flesh, true soul, true divinity, true Father God, true Holy Spirit, omnipotent God, or any other thing that true faith confesses. …
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