A Word of Advice

You chose a bad introducer. If you will take my advice, both you and I will turn by preference to him who introduces us to the Father, and who said, “No one comes to the Father except through me.” I grieve for you, my brother, if you believe this. And if you do not believe it, I still grieve that you hunt through all sorts of ancient and outdated documents for grounds to suspect other men of perjury, while perjury, lasting and endless, with all its inexplicable impiety, remains on your own lips. Might not these words of the apostle rightly be applied to you? “You who are called a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God, being instructed out of the law, and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who sit in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law: you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who say that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege,” that is, perjury? And last and most important: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” and because of your love of strife. [a]