At Vilfridus, Absit, inquit, ut Iohannem stultitiae reprehendamus, cum scita legis Mosaicae iuxta literam servaret, iudaizante adhuc in multis Ecclesia, nec subito valentibus apostolis omnem legis observantiam quae a Deo instituta est, abdicare, (quomodo simulacra quae a daemonibus inventa sunt, repudiare omnes qui ad fidem veniunt, necesse est), videlicet ne scandalum facerent eis qui inter gentes erant Iudaeis.
Whereat Wilfrid saith: God forbid we should charge John with fondness for keeping the decrees of the Mosaic law literally, according as the Church followed yet in many things the Jewish manner, and the apostles had not power upon the sudden to renounce all observance of the law ordained of God (in the way that all that come to the faith must of necessity abandon idols invented of devils), lest forsooth they might cause offence to those Jews which lived among the Gentiles.
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