Chapter VI.—Renewed cautions.

These things I write to you, thou new olive-tree of Christ, not that I am aware you hold any such opinions, but that I may put you on your guard, as a father does his children. Beware, therefore, of those that hasten to work mischief, those “enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose glory is in their shame.”^12401240    Phil. iii. 18, 19. Beware of those “dumb dogs,” those trailing serpents, those scaly^12411241    The text is here doubtful. dragons, those asps, and basilisks, and scorpions. For these are subtle wolves,^12421242    Literally, “fox-like thoes,” lynxes being perhaps intended. and apes that mimic the appearance of men.