Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XI/The Commonitory of Vincent of Lerins/Chapter 19

Chapter XIX.

What we ought to learn from these Examples.

[47.] behoves us, then, to give heed to these instances from Church History, so many and so great, and others of the same

description, and to understand distinctly, in accordance with the rule laid down in Deuteronomy, that if at any time a Doctor in the Church have erred from the faith, Divine Providence permits it in order to make trial of us, whether or not we love God with all our heart and with all our mind.