For idolaters among the people of the Lord were smitten with the sword;1 but schismatics were swallowed up by the earth opening her mouth.2 And the apostle says, “Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”3 11. If any one is brought to the surgeon, afflicted with a grievous wound in some vital part of the body, and the surgeon says that unless it is cured it must cause death, the friends who brought him do not, I presume, act so foolishly as