The former narrative I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus both did and taught from the beginning

whom, in his blood, through faith, God hath set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, in order to manifest his righteousness, on account of his passing by, in his forbearance, the sins committed in former times;

to the latter we are the odor of death, producing death; and to the former the odor of life, producing life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,

My children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great struggle with sufferings;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that of old by the word of God there were heavens, and an earth formed out of the water and by the water,

After this I saw, and lo! an open door in heaven; and the former voice, which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, said, Come up hither, and I will show thee what things must take place after these.

and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall mourning, nor crying, nor pain he any more; for the former things are passed away.