Ways Of Seduction

Haec scripsi vobis de his qui seducent vos.  Seductores quos nominat, non solum haeretici sunt intelligendi, qui perversa doctrina quaerunt avertere a fide, sed et hi qui per illecebras vel adversa saeculi a promissione vitae aeternae mentes infirmorum male mulcendo, sive terrendo, detrahunt. Sanctus Beda, In I Epistolam Sancti Joannis Source: Migne PL 93.96c

I write this to you concerning those who would seduce you. 1 Those he names seducers should not only be understood as heretics who with perverse teachings seek to turn one away from the faith, but even those who with the allurements or adversities of the world, in the beguiling or the terrifying of the minds of the weak, draw away from the promise of eternal life. Saint Bede, Commentary On The First Letter of Saint John 1 1 Jn 2.26