(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

Even as it is written - Lo! I lay in Zion, a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over, and, he that resteth faith thereupon, shall not be put to shame.

And yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the way Adam had, against a positive command. For Adam was a figure of Him who was to come.

For this reason, God delivered them over to vile passions: for their females exchanged their natural use for that which is against nature: