For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.

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

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;