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and they stir up envy against the orders of the republic. In the book On the Morals of the Church he writes that the perfection of fasts, continence, and other virtues by which the minds of the pious surpass human capacity is displeasing to them. That this is not pleasing to the Ceneuangelistae Empty-gospellers is argued by the fact that they claim fasts and other works of piety are not good, and that continence is truly impossible to keep, in which matter they seem worse than the Manichaeans. They also say that the choice of foods is superstitious. It is common to Aetius Aetius of Antioch, 4th-century heretic, Oecolampadius Johannes Oecolampadius, a Reformer, and Zwingli Huldrych Zwingli that God is the author of our sin and that sin does not harm the predestined. With Jovinian 4th-century monk deemed a heretic, relics and the veneration of saints are laughed at. Oecolampadius argues that the Gospel is a lie, not believing that Jesus entered to his own while the doors were shut, being, of course, more restricted by the laws of philosophy than by the Gospel and reason. For although it cannot be doubted that resurrected bodies will be more perfect than living ones, nevertheless two bodies can exist in one place naturally, contrary to the axiom of the philosophers, by penetrating dimensions. One vessel can be filled twice with water and ash without vacuation. Tufa stone drinks water slowly with a larger mass than its own body, as does gypsum. Fire can exist with air, water, earth, and iron, and yet this was not permitted to Christ, although the lowest creature has it. Thus, heretics corrupt not only the legitimate interpretation but the letter itself. Tertullian Early Christian author, however, in his book On the Prescriptions of Heretics, says this: "In the first place, it does not matter who is a catechumen or who among them is a believer, even if the Gentiles should arrive, they will cast the holy to the dogs and pearls to the swine, even if they are not converted." They want simplicity to be the destruction