There Are Wolves Among Us Everywhere

Watch Out for Ear-Ticklers

"We should consider what is said—not with what eloquence it is said. 

Nor should we look at how it tickles the ears. 

Instead, we should look at the benefits that it confers on its hearers."

-Arnobius (ca.305), 6:340. Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg 550

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2 Timothy 4

I solemnly charge you 

in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, 

who is to judge the living and the dead, 

and by His appearing and His kingdom:

preach the word; 

be ready in season and out of season; 

reprove, 

rebuke, 

exhort, 

with great patience and instruction.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; 

but wanting to have their ears tickled, 

they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

But you, 

be sober in all things, 

endure hardship, 

do the work of an evangelist, 

fulfill your ministry."...

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