I often hear many people saying, “Alas, how shall I be saved? I haven’t the strength to fast; I don’t know how to keep vigil; I can’t live in virginity; I couldn’t bear to leave the world—so how can I be saved? How? I will tell you how. Forgive and you will be forgiven;… here is a short cut to salvation. And I will show you another. What is that? Judge not, it says, and you will not be judged. So here is another path without fasting or vigil or labor.… He who judges before Christ’s coming is Antichrist, because he abrogates the position that belongs to Christ.123
