while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.

But Michael, the Archangel, when in contending with the devil, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce sentence for blasphemy, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."

These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

But as for you, dearly beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

But you, beloved, continually building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and ever praying in the Holy Spirit,

others pity, but with caution, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.