For there must be also heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Nor the fact that they subvert the faith of some, for their final cause is, by affording a trial to faith, to give it also the opportunity of being "approved.".
And therefore "heresies must needs be in order that they which are approved might be made manifest.
Now, that which he subjoins to evil things, he of course confesses to be itself an evil; and all the greater, indeed, because he tells us that his belief of their schisms and dissensions was grounded on his knowledge that "there must be heresies also.".
necessary that there should be heresies;.
that the very Scriptures were even arranged by the will of God in such a manner as to furnish materials for heretics, inasmuch as I read that "there must be heresies.
Now if there are no heresies at all but what those who refute them are supposed to have fabricated, then the apostle who predicted them.
Now it is no matter of surprise if arguments are captiously taken from the writings of (the apostle) himself, inasmuch as there "must needs be heresies; ".
Now, since it was "needful that there should be heresies, in order that they which are approved might be made manifest; "
