Chapter 5

¹ Some people in their ignorance deny him—or rather, have been denied by him—being advocates of death rather than of the truth, whom the prophecies have not persuaded, nor the law of Moses, nor even to this day the gospel, nor our individual sufferings. For they think the same thing about us too. What does it profit me if someone praises me but blasphemes my Lord, not confessing him to be a bearer of flesh?

² Whoever says this has completely denied him, being a corpse-bearer. But their names, being unbelieving, I did not think it right to write down. May it never be that I should even mention them, until they repent concerning the passion, which is our resurrection.