4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.



Ver. 4. With enticing words] With probable and persuasible speeches, ðéèáíïëïãéá . It is not safe for simple men to hear heretics; for though they may think themselves able enough to answer them, yet they have a notable faculty of persuading the credulous and less cautelous. {a} The Valentinian heretics had an art to persuade before they taught. (Tertull.) The locusts have faces like women. In the year 497, Pope Anastasius II, seeking to reduce the heretic Acacius, was seduced by him.



{a} Cautious, wary, heedful, circumspect. ŒD