Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/On Baptism/Book VII/Chapter 40

78.&#160; Salvianus of Gazaufala said:&#160; "It is generally known that heretics have nothing; and therefore they come to us, that they may receive what previously they did not have."

79.&#160; Our answer is:&#160; On this theory, the very men who founded heresies are not heretics themselves, because they separated themselves from the Church, and certainly they previously had what they received there.&#160; But if it is absurd to say that those are not heretics through whom the rest became heretics, it is therefore possible that a heretic should have what turns to his destruction through his evil use of it.