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| Truth First, Falsehood Afterwards, as Its Perversion. Christ's Parable Puts the Sowing of the Good Seed Before the Useless Tares.
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Chapter XXXI.—Truth
First, Falsehood Afterwards, as Its Perversion. Christ’s Parable
Puts the Sowing of the Good Seed Before the Useless Tares.
Let me return, however, from this
digression2177
to discuss2178
| 2178 Disputandam. Another
reading has deputandam, i.e., “to attribute.” | the priority of truth, and the comparative
lateness2179
of falsehood,
deriving support for my argument even from that parable which puts in
the first place the sowing by the Lord of the good seed of the wheat,
but introduces at a later stage the adulteration of the crop by its
enemy the devil with the useless weed of the wild oats. For
herein is figuratively described the difference of doctrines, since in
other passages also the word of God is likened unto seed. From the
actual order, therefore, it becomes clear, that that which was first
delivered is of the Lord and is true, whilst that is strange and false
which was afterwards introduced. This sentence will keep its ground in
opposition to all later heresies, which have no consistent quality of
kindred knowledge2180
| 2180 Nulla constantia de
conscientia, “no conscientious ground of confidence”
(Dodgson). | inherent in
them—to claim the truth as on their side.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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