The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

For after this manner in former times the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.