One night Jesus advised his disciples and said, "I say to you that on the Day of Judgment many people will say to God, 'Lord, we have preached and taught by your Law.' Against them even, the stones will cry out, saying, 'When you preached to others with your own tongue you condemned yourselves, O workers of iniquity.'

He who knows the truth and works the contrary shall be punished with such grievous penalty that Satan shall almost have compassion on him. Tell me, now has our God given us the Law for knowing or for working? Truly, I say to you that all knowledge has for end that wisdom which works all it knows. Tell me, if one were sitting at table and with his eyes beheld delicate meats, but with his hands should choose unclean things and eat those, would not he be mad?" "Yes, assuredly," said the disciples.

Then Jesus said, "O mad beyond all madmen are you, O man who with your understanding know heaven, and with your hands choose earth; with your understanding know God, and with your affection desire the world; with your understanding know the delights of paradise, and with your works choose the miseries of hell."

Then Jesus continued, "Truly I say to you that God had not compassion on the fall of Satan, but yet had compassion on the fall of Adam. Let this suffice you to know the unhappy condition of him who knows good and does evil."

Then said Andrew, "O master, it is a good thing to leave learning aside, so as to do not fall into such condition." Jesus answered, "If the world is good without the sun, man without eyes, and the soul without understanding, then it is good to do not know. Do you not know that it is a precept of God to learn? For thus says God, 'Ask of your elders, and they should teach you.'

Truly, I say to you that man ought to spend all the time of his life not in learning how to speak or to read, but in learning how to work well. Woe to the world that studies only to please a body that is clay and dung, but does not study to serve God who has made all things; and who is blessed for evermore."