The former treatise have I composed, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

For who hath resisted his will? Nay, but who art thou, O man, 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, till Christ be formed in you,

concerning your former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful desires:

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

But call ye to mind the former days, in which, after ye were inlightened, ye endured so great a conflict of sufferings:

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;

And he shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall sorrow, or crying, or pain, be any more; because the former things are gone away.