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29* for he punishes the transgressions of his laws, not the transgressions of God's laws. On the contrary, he burns those who obey God's laws.

And there are not only heterodox beliefs but, in addition to them, all sorts of books which are clearly against the divine law, yet they are honored as if they were of the true faith. What a lot of fraudulent miracles there is in passion books of the saints and other annals, venerated by misguided people! And what uncertain conjectures and untruthful, vague reasonings are held by men as faith! And they have mixed up even true faith with these conjectures and reasonings to such an extent that this medley is put on a pedestal as real faith, while the living faith is thrown into darkness and violated. It is of necessity therefore that the apostle says:

He admonishes and appeals to them to contend for the one and true faith which was given to the saints, the reason for it being–as he says–that admission has been secretly the gained by ungodly persons who of our God into Jude 3–4,