2 Peter 3:16

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As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Now all men, having the same judgment, some, following the Word speaking, frame for themselves proofs; while others, giving themselves up to pleasures, wrest Scripture, in accordance with their lusts.

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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius

AD 320

The sum of the matter is this: The unlearned and the foolish esteem false religions as true, because they neither know the true nor understand the false.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

Now, unquestionably, the Divine Scriptures are more fruitful in resources of all kinds for this sort of facility. Nor do I risk contradiction in saying. But all these (instances) I believe to be unknown to those who are in a state of agitation at our proceedings; or else known by the reading alone, not by careful study as well; in accordance with the greater bulk of "the unskilled"

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