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Verse 4: 'Showing first that you are forgers of a lie, and worshippers of perverse teachings.' 34. Heretics are forgers of a lie. — By which words indeed it is plainly shown that his friends, as it were under the guise of heretics, oppose themselves to the judgements of the holy man. For it is clear that they hold not the figure of catholics who are called worshippers of perverse teachings. In which matter this too must be observed, that they are called forgers of a lie. For just as a building is fabricated of stones, so a lie is fabricated of words. For where there is not deceitful speech but the sense of truth, there, as it were, a fortified mass rises up not from fabrication but from nature. There follows: