I beseech you, brethren, suffer the words of exhortation: For we have written unto you in few words.

What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

and trumpet-blast, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not a word more should be added;