10 With this distinction take thou my saying, and thus it can stand with that which thou believest 111 of the first father, and of our Beloved one. And let this ever be as lead to thy feet, to make thee move slowly as a weary man, 114 both to the yea and to the nay which thou seest not; for he is among the fools very low down who without distinction affirms or denies, 117 in the one alike and in the other case; because it happens that oftentimes bends the hasty opinion in false direction, 120 and then self-love binds the intelligence. Far more than in vain does he leave the bank, since he returns not such as he sets out, 123 who fishes for the truth, and has not the art; and of this are to the world manifest proofs Parmenides, Melissus, Bryson, and many others 126 who went on and knew not wither. Thus did Sabellius, and Arius, and those fools who were as swords unto the Scriptures 129 in making crooked their straight faces. Let not the folk be yet too confident in judgment, like him who reckons up 132 the ears in the field ere they are ripe; for I have seen all winter long first the briar show itself stiff and rugged, 135 then bear the rose upon its top;
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