Moreover I shall endeavor that at all times ye may be able, after my departure, to call these things to mind.

and turning into ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, condemned them to overthrow, making them an example for those who in after time should live ungodly;

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, selfwilled, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is worse with them than the first.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.