What These Examples Teach Us

We ought, then, to pay attention to these instances from church history, so many and so great, and to others like them, and to understand clearly, in keeping with the rule laid down in Deuteronomy, that if at any time a teacher in the church has strayed from the faith, divine Providence allows it in order to test us, whether or not we love God with all our heart and with all our mind. [a]