2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
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Basil the Great

AD 379
The apostle also showed how much incontinency is to be deaded by including it among the signs of apostasy, when he said, “In the last days shall come dangeous times. Men shall be loves of themselves.” Then, afte enumeating seveal foms of iniquity, he adds, “slandees, incontinent.” Also, fo selling his bithight fo one potion of food, Esau was chaged with incontinency as the geatest of evils. The fist disobedience befell men as a consequence of incontinency. The Long Rules, q...

John Chrysostom

AD 407
If any now takes offense at the existence of heretics, let him remember that it was so from the beginning, the devil always setting up error by the side of truth. God from the beginning promised good, the devil came too with a promise. God planted Paradise, the devil deceived, saying, You shall be as gods. Genesis 3:5 For as he could show nothing in actions, he made the more promises in words. Such is the character of deceivers. After this were Cain and Abel, then the sons of Seth and the daughters of men; afterwards Ham and Japhet, Abraham and Pharaoh, Jacob and Esau; and so it is even to the end, Moses and the magicians, the Prophets and the false prophets, the Apostles and the false apostles, Christ and Antichrist. Thus it was then, both before and at that time. Then there was Theudas, then Simon, then were the Apostles, then too this party of Hermogenes and Philetus. In short, there was no time when falsehood was not set up in opposition to truth. Let us not therefore be distressed...

The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375
Wherefore henceforward it will be free from blame and reproach, and become clear of such wicked, deceitful, abusive, unmerciful, traitorous persons; of such as are "haters of those that are good, lovers of pleasure"

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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