3068. When I first named the Lord as Christ, then their thought so greatly resisted it that I was unable to utter it. I discovered the reason to be that they had brought this trait with them from the world, because they had seen in the life of the body that the Christians among them live worse than they do, being devoid of charity, which gave birth to their opinion and almost aversion. But when they realized the goodness of those who were the Lord's, then at once they were moved, [but] still not knowing what kind those are, whether they are Christians, of whom they had acquired such an opinion.