Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

they might be. Moses, leading the people of God out of Egypt, did not excommunicate the promiscuous Egyptian rabble that wished to follow the people of God, but permitted them to coalesce together. He was so far from writing against the superstitions of Pharaoh that he ignored his idolatry. What was more just than to strike with anathema and writings those seditious tribes of Israel which, immediately after the reign of Solomon, had defected from just rule to servitude and from true religion to manifest impiety? Yet the Holy Spirit did not wish it. We see that stone which was rejected, moving in the midst of the Samaritans, and the greatest hypocrites who were then in the sacred magistracy, and the Greek and Roman impiety then flourishing at its height in Syria; yet, besides that rebuke of the deed and the disapproval of certain little traditions which He leveled at the Scribes and Pharisees present, we do not find that He ordered anything more harsh to be written against the vain dogmas of His time, nor did He wish to dissipate any human consortium. He was so eager to glue all things together that the church, stained with His recent blood, did not dissolve marriages between Christians and Jews, and Pagans, if they had been contracted before. Therefore, Paul became all things to all men, like the Lord JESUS, to whom the meal of sinners was more pleasing than that of the righteous. This is the first intention of God: to unite all things. You may see this in the writings of John, both in.