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Chapter XXVI.—The Apostles Did in All Cases Teach the Whole Truth to the Whole Church. No Reservation, Nor Partial Communication to Favourite Friends.
Besides which, it must have followed, that, for the man to whom he committed the ministration of the gospel, he would add the injunction that it be not ministered in all places,276 Passim.
and without respect to persons,277 Inconsiderate.
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in accordance with the Lord’s saying, “Not to cast one’s pearls before swine, nor that which is holy unto dogs.”278 Matt. vii. 6. Openly did the Lord speak,279 John xviii. 20. without any intimation of a hidden mystery. He had Himself commanded that, “whatsoever they had heard in darkness” and in secret, they should “declare in the light and on the house-tops.”280 Matt.
Tertullian prescription against heretics
x. 27. He had Himself foreshown, by means of a parable, that they should not keep back in secret, fruitless of interest,281 &n