For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.

For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.