THE EPISTLE OF THE CORINTHIANS TO ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE.[1]
1 STEPHEN[2], and the elders with him, Dabnus, Eubulus, Theophilus, and Xinon, to Paul, our father and evangelist, and faithful master in Jesus Christ, health.[3]
2 Two men have come to Corinth, Simon by name, and Cleobus[4], who vehemently disturb the faith of some with deceitful and corrupt words;
3 Of which words thou shouldst inform thyself:
4 For neither have we heard such words from thee, nor from the other apostles:
5 But we know only that what we have heard from thee and from them, that we have kept firmly.
6 But in this chiefly has our Lord had compassion, that, whilst thou art yet with us in the flesh, we are again about to hear from thee.
7 Therefore do thou write to us, or come thyself amongst us quickly.
8 We believe in the Lord, that, as it was revealed to Theonas, he hath delivered thee from the hands of the unrighteous.[5]
9 But these are the sinful words of these impure men, for thus do they say and teach: