At that same time Jesus uttered the words: "I thank thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that, though thou has hidden these things from the wise and learned, thou hast revealed them to the child-like!

Even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him.

For his words to Moses are-'I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.'

And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.

For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?

In him, I say, for by our union with him we became God's Heritage, having from the first been destined for this in the intention of him who, in all that happens, is carrying out his own fixed purpose;

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.

Is thine

But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!

Greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly;

Do not make complaints against one another, Brothers, or judgment will be passed upon you. The Judge is already standing at the door!

Because

But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul's statements in violent language.

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'Child,' the father answered, 'you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours.

Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a recompense?'