Simple believers who live better

I have said these things not out of any wish to quarrel with what has been well conceived among the Greeks too, nor to find fault with sound doctrines, but because I wish to show that these things, and things even greater and more divine than these, have been said by the divine men, the prophets of God and the apostles of Jesus, and are searched out by those who wish to be Christians more perfectly and who know that “the mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak judgment; the law of his God is in his heart” (Psalm 37:30–31).

And even among those to whom these things have not been made clear, whether through great lack of learning, or through simplicity, or through want of anyone to urge them on toward a reasoned piety, but by whom the God over all is believed in, and his “only-begotten Son” (John 3:18), Word and God, there may be found a plainness and simplicity of dignity, purity and character that is often better. Without it, those “who claim to be wise” (Romans 1:22) wallow with boys in what is unlawful, “men with men committing what is shameful” (Romans 1:27).