Rejecting Christ shares the lot of idolaters; all justification in Christ

—signaling, I think somewhere, also this, that if someone should not choose the things through Christ, and will not love the stopping-up of the sin, because of having the eagerness toward uncleannesses alone, he will go out from the holy Jerusalem—that is, from the holy mother of the firstborn, and from the beautiful city above; and all but having the sin as an unbearable burden, he will dwell together with the Babylonians—that is, will have a portion and lot with the godless idolaters. For equal to the godless are those who have dishonored the redemption through Christ. And indeed the Savior: ‘If your brother sins,’ he says, ‘go, rebuke him between you and him alone; if he hears you, you have gained your brother; and if he does not hear you, take along with you one or two, so that upon mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand; and if he also disobeys these, tell the Church; and if he also disobeys the Church, let him be for you as the gentile and the tax-collector.’ It is therefore not unclear, or rather it has been testified for us through all divine Scripture, that every justification and every redemption is in Christ.

Palladius: You have spoken well. ON THE WORSHIP AND SERVICE IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH