Errant Clergy

Qui vero crediti quidem sunt a multis esse presbyteri, serviunt autem suis voluptatibus, et non praeponunt timorem Dei in cordibus suis, sed contumelis agunt reliquos, et principalis concessionis tumore elati sunt, et in absconsis agunt mala, et dicunt. 'Nemo vos videt'  redarguentur a Verbo, qui non secundum gloriam judicat, neque faciem attendit, sed in cor: et audient eas quae sunt a Daniele propheta voces: Semen Chanaan, et non Juda, species seduxit te, et concupiscentia evertit cor tuum; inveterate dierum malorum, nunc advenerunt peccata tua quae faciebas ante, judicans judicia injusta: et innocentes quidem damnabas, dimittebas vero nocentes, dicente Domino: Innocentem et justum non occides. De quibus dixit et Dominus: Si autem dixerit malus servus in corde suo: Tardat dominus meus, et incipiat caedere servos et ancillas, et manducare, et bibere, et inebriari; veniet dominus servi illius in die qua nescit, et hora qua non sperat, et dividet eum, et partem ejus cum infidelibus ponet. Sanctus Ireneaus Lugdunensis, Adversus Haereses, Lib IV Cap XXVI Source: Migne PG 7.1054b-c

Those, however, who are believed by many to be presbyters, but attend to their own pleasures, and do not place the fear of God highest in their hearts, but conduct themselves with contempt towards others, and are puffed up being raised to the chief place, and do evil in secret, saying, 'No one sees us,' 1 shall be convicted by the Word, who does not judge according to outward glory, nor looks upon the countenance, but into the heart; and they shall hear these words, which are spoken by Daniel the prophet: 'O you seed of Canaan, and not of Judah, beauty has deceived you and lust has perverted your heart.' 2 And: 'You have grown old amid wicked days and now your sins have come before you; for you have judged unjustly and have condemned the innocent, and let the guilty go free, though the Lord says: You shall not slay the innocent and the righteous.' 3 Concerning which the Lord said: 'But if the wicked servant shall say in his heart: My lord delays in His coming, and he begins to beat the servants and handmaids, and to eat and drink and be drunken; the Lord of that servant will come for him on a day he does not know, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and He shall separate him and appoint his portion with the faithless.' 4   Saint Ireneaus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book 4, Ch 26 1 Dan 13.20 2 Dan 13.56 3 Dan 13.52-53 4 Mt 24.48