And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
It is an evil not to be restrained, not curable by any medicine, it destroys the whole frame. He shows that novelty of doctrine is a disease, and worse than a disease. And here he implies that they are incorrigible, and that they erred not weakly but willfully.
