in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being;

but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;

One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men,