Betrayal And Salvation

Dicit Apostolus, quod oporteat haereses esse. Oportet autem, non haereticis quod sunt esse, sed catholicis sustinere quod non sunt. Sicut de Juda traditore suo Dominus dixit, quod bonum fuerat homini illi non nasci. Inde enim ait illi, quia suum nasci illi malum erat qui tradidit, nobis bonum, ad quos salus ex traditione pervenit. Sancti Aviti Viennensis, Ex Libris contra Arianos Source: Migne PL 59.307b

The Apostle says, 'It is necessary that there be heresies.' 1 For it is necessary not that there are heretics, but that Catholics endure what they are not. So the Lord said of the betrayer Judas that it were better that he had not been born. 2 And He says this to him because his birth was evil to him who did betray, but to us a good, to whom salvation came from betrayal. Saint Avitus of Vienne, Fragment from Books against The Arians 1 1 Cor 11.19 2 Mt 26.21