For we followed not deceitful fables when we opened unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but with our eyes we saw his majesty:

So that ye first know this: That no prophecy in the scripture hath any private interpretation.

but was rebuked of his iniquity. The tame and dumb beast, speaking with man's voice forbade the foolishness of the prophet.

It is happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed, is returned to her wallowing in the mire."

and say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers died all things continue in the same estate wherein they were at the beginning."