Mercy to you, and peace, and divine love be multiplied.

Woe unto them! because they have gone off in the way of Cain, and in the delusion of Balaam they have been seduced by reward, and they perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

But you, beloved, remember the words which have hitherto been spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

that they said to you, At the last time there will be mockers, walking according to their own lusts after ungodly things.

and some save, seizing them out of the fire; and some pity in their fear, you indeed hating the garment having been spotted by carnality.

to God our only Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before every age, both now, and unto all the ages. Amen.