For the person who lacks these qualities is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten the cleansing that he has received from his past sins.

But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this 'tent,' to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be disclosed.