But Jesus said,
Forbid him not: for there is no man who shall do a miracle in my name, that can soon after speak evil of me.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Some who are intent on severe disciplinary principles which admonish us to rebuke the restless, not to give what is holy to dogs, to consider a despiser of the church as a heathen, to cut off from the unified structure of the body the member which causes scandal, so disturb the peace of the church that they try to separate the wheat from the chaff before the proper time. Blinded by this error, they are themselves separated instead from the unity of Christ.
