Chapter VIII.
Therefore, to those who confess him as Lord without the Holy Spirit, he will say in judgement: Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I say (Luke 6:46); and why have you scattered the people and my members, for which I shed my blood? And so, the offering of heretics, who do not have the Holy Spirit, is not for the worship of God, but for the worship of demons. For whatever heretics speak in their synagogues, that is, in the gatherings of Satan, is not the teaching of the Lord, but the howling and trickery of demons. For these are they to whom the Holy Spirit, through the Prophet Isaiah, speaks, saying that the people of the Jews have prepared a table, and says: And you prepare a table for Fortune (Isaiah 65:11); and therefore, both they themselves and the sinners, who do not judge themselves, boldly approach the most holy body and blood of Christ, the Apostle rebukes, saying: You cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons: you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons (1 Corinthians 10:21). Let these remarks about the offering of heretics suffice; now let us return to the order.