“Indeed, heretics are adulterers, who, adulterating the word of God, attempt to transfer it into another meaning. Their children, that is, their disciples, will be at the end, because they tend toward eternal perdition. These, having been brought up from a wicked bed, nourished by the poisonous nourishment of a pollute…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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18Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort in the day of trial.
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16As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.
17For though they live long, yet shall they be nothing regarded: and their last age shall be without honour.
— Wisdom of Solomon 3:18 —
19For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.