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GERMANUS: This assertion does not seem to us rounded on truth, or based
on solid reasoning. For if it is clear that all who either never receive
the faith of Christ at all or who corrupt it by the wicked sin of heresy,
are of unclean hearts, how is it that many Jews and heretics, and Catholics
also who are entangled in various sins, have acquired perfect knowledge of
the Scriptures and boast of the greatness of their spiritual learning, and
on the other hand countless swarms of saintly men, whose heart has been
purified from all stain of sin, are content with the piety of simple faith
and know nothing of the mysteries of a deeper knowledge? How then will that
opinion stand, which attributes spiritual knowledge solely to purity of
heart?
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