False Prophets And Blasphemy

Fuerunt vero et pseudoprophetae in populo... Quae secta Latine, Graece dicitur haeresis, cum quis stulta obstinatione errorum quem semel coepit semper sectari nullatenus cessat. Quod haereticorum proprium esse quis nesciat? Et eum qui emit eos Dominum negant... De hoc emptore et Paulus ait: Empti enim estis pretio magno, glorificate et portate Deum in corpore vestre. Merito autem sibi celerem perditionem superducunt, qui Redemptorem summ negantes, hunc recte confitendo glorificare, et bene faciendo suo in corpore ferre detrectant: quod omnes faciunt haeretici; nam et Arius, qui Redemptorem nostrum in divinitate Patre minorem dicit, et Photinus, qui dicit: Christus homo est, Deus non est, et Manichaeus, qui dicit, Christus Deus tantum est, homo verus non est, et Ebion, qui dicit: Christus ante Mariam non erat, ex ipsa originem sumpsit, et Apollinaris, quid dicit: Christus tantum Deus ? caro est, animam rationalem nunquam suscepit, et Pelagius, qui dicit: Christus Redemptor parvulorum in baptismo non est, quia sine iniquitatibus concepti, et sine delictis a matre sua geniti, nullum prorsus habent peccatum quod sibi debeat dimitti, ideoque Christus non est Salvator omnium electorum; et caeteri cum his haeretici Dominum profecto, qui emit eos pretio sanguinis sui, negant, quia illum non qualem veritas ostendit, sed qualem ipsi sibi fingunt praedicant. Et propterea a Redemptore alieni facti, nihil certius quam foveam perditionis exspectant. Et multi sequenter eorum luxurias... Via veritatis blasphemabitur per haereticos non solum in eis quos suae haeresi eductos associant, sed in eis quoque quos per impurissima sua facta et sacrificia, vel mysteria exsecranda quae faciunt, in odium Christiani nominis concitant, existimantibus imperitis omnes Christianos hujusmodi flagitiis esse mancipatos. Qualibus dicit Scriptura: Per vos nomen meum blasphematur in gentibus. Sancta Beda,  In II Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput II Migne PL 93 74

However, there were false prophets among the people... 1 What is known in Latin as 'sect' is named 'haeresis' in Greek, which once begin in the foolish obstinacy of error never ceases to divide. Who knows the actual number of heresies? And He who redeemed them, The Lord, they deny... Concerning this redemption Paul says, 'You have been bought at great price, glorify and carry God in your body.' 2 And so with merit they who deny their own Redeemer are led off into the obscuring darkness, the one in whom it is right to glory in confession and in which body they belittle it is good to remain, for all the heretics do this, Arius speaks of our Redeemer being less in Divinity than the Father, and Photinus says, 'Christ is a man, not a God,' and Manicheus says, 'Christ is God alone and not truly a man,' and Ebion says , 'Christ was not before Mary, from her He had His origin,' and Apollonaris says, 'Christ is God? Only as regards flesh, the rational soul he did not take up,' and Pelagius says, 'Christ is not the Redeemer of little ones in baptism, because they are conceived without sin, and without fault they are brought forth from their mothers, and thus they have no sin which should be removed, and therefore Christ is not the saviour of all the elect', and others who He redeemed with the price of His blood with these heretics deny Him, because they do not not reveal the truth but they preach that which they have made for themselves. And on account of this they are alienated from the Redeemer, and nothing more certain may they hope for than the pit of destruction. And many will follow them in their lusts... The way of truth will be blasphemed not only by heretics among those who they have led away to associate with them in their heresy, but also by those who by impure deeds and sacrifices make the sacraments execrable, thus arousing hatred of the Christian name, and by those who judge poorly all Christians are bound up with those who commit these crimes. Concerning which Scripture says, 'Because of you my name is blasphemed among the nations.' 3 Saint Bede, from The Commentary on the Second Letter of Saint Peter, Chapter 2 1 2 Pet 2.1 2 1 Cor 6. 20 3 Isai 52.5