They brought him to the Pharisees--the former blind man.

I indeed made the former treatise, O Theophilus, about all things that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

During which time Moses was born (and he was well-formed by God) who was reared three months in his father's house.

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it.

My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

But remember the former days, in which, after being enlightened, ye endured a great contest of sufferings.

By faith Moses, after being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child well-formed, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

For he in whom these things are not present is blind, being near-sighted, having deliberately forgotten the purification of his former sins.

And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there will not be any more death, nor grief, nor crying, nor will there be any more anguish, because the former things are gone.