How scathing is his rebuke to those who misrepresented his doctrine: "We be slanderously reported, and some affirm that we say, Let us do evil that good may come!--whose condemnation is just." This is his only answer to evil tongues. It is conceded by the best authorities that Paul did not write the Epistle to the Hebrews, but there is a passage in that letter not unlike him,--the rebuke to those who ought to be strong, manly and intelligent Christians, but who have not yet gotten out of their swaddling clothes: "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness; for he is but a babe. But _strong meat belongeth to those that are of full age_, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." Similar to this is Paul's treatment of the Corinthians when they were divided in their allegiance, some claiming to belong to one teacher and some to another. First Paul himself had been there and taught among them in that broad and liberal spirit which always characterized him. He made very little of forms and ceremonies, and very much of charity and brotherhood. Then came Peter who was always more narrow than Paul, but very intense. Paul was a broad river, Peter a mountain torrent. Peter never completely freed himself from the bondage of the Jewish system, and he insisted upon some of the things that Paul discarded. Soon a party was formed. Some thought, no doubt, that Paul was too far away from the Jewish creed, that he was not strict enough, that it was perhaps safer to take Peter as a guide; so while some said, "I am of Paul," others said, "I am of Cephas." Then came Apollos who is described as being "very eloquent." When he stood up to speak, many said, "He beats both Paul and Peter; I am of Apollos." So there were "envyings and strifes and divisions." Paul ridicules the Corinthians for these childish quarrels, and says that he must still speak to them as to "babes." "I have fed you with milk and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, _neither yet now are ye able_!" _Examples from other Apostles._ The epistle of James that has furnished illustrations for some of the preceding chapters, shall yield one for this, in its notice of a grave abuse that existed in the early churches, and that has not entirely died out of modern churches.