Chapter 8

¹ So I did my part as a man set on union. But where there is division and anger, God does not dwell. The Lord forgives all who repent, if they repent into the unity of God and the council of the bishop. I trust in the grace of Jesus Christ, who will loose every bond from you. But I urge you to do nothing out of selfish ambition, but according to Christ’s teaching. For I heard some people saying, ‘If I don’t find it in the archives, I don’t believe it in the gospel.’ And when I said to them, ‘It is written,’ they answered me, ‘That’s the question.’ But to me the archives are Jesus Christ, the inviolable archives are his cross and his death and his resurrection and the faith that comes through him—in which I want to be justified by your prayer.