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Letter to the Smyrnaeans

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They abstain from Eucharist and prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ—the flesh that suffered for our sins, which the Father in His goodness raised. Therefore those who argue against the gift of God die in their disputes; it would be better for them to love, so that they too may rise.

It is fitting to keep away from such people and not speak about them either privately or publicly, but to pay attention to the prophets, and especially to the Gospel, in which the Passion has been revealed to us and the Resurrection accomplished. Flee divisions as the beginning of evils.

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