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

No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

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

That ye put off concerning the former manner 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 ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of 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 to their own husbands:

And God will 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 have passed away.