Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 48

XLVII.&#8212;To the Faithful.

I admonish the faithful not to hold their brethren in hatred.&#160; Hatreds are accounted impious by martyrs for the flame.&#160; The martyr is destroyed whose confession is of such kind; nor is it taught that the evil is expiated by the shedding of blood.&#160; A law is given to the unjust man that he may restrain himself.&#160; Thence he ought to be free from craft; so also oughtest thou.&#160; Twice dost thou sin against God, if thou extendest strifes to thy brother; whence thou shalt not avoid sin following thy former courses.&#160; Thou hast once been washed:&#160; shalt thou be able to be immersed again?