The inestimable value of the New Testament entailed greater dangers, as well as secured superior safeguards.

Strange, that a later age should try to discard the latter].
It is found therefore that Satan could not even wait for the grave to close over St.John.

'Many' there were already who taught that Christ had not come in the flesh.

Gnosticism was in the world already.

St.Paul denounces it by name[441], and significantly condemns the wild fancies of its professors, their dangerous speculations as well as their absurd figments.