So, while Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came up to him privately and said: "Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your Coming, and of the close of the age."

I tell you that even the present generation will not pass away, until all these things have taken place.

His answer was: "It is not for you to know times or hours, for the Father has reserved these for his own decision;

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As to love for the Brethren there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another;

With reference, indeed, to the Fund for your fellow-Christians, it is quite superfluous for me to say anything to you.

Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common Salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to urge you to fight in defense of the Faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ's People.

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They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.